logo

Quotes About Joyous

The reunions are always joyous and the good byes bittersweet, everyone regretting they have so little time together. Thomas says that he doesn't know Vilalba very well because they usually just stay at the house for endless conversations, punctuated by laughter and complaints, long lunches and drawn-out dinners. He says that for him Spain is just people in his family who love one another, who eat and drink and cut each other off in conversation until night falls.
~ Philippe Besson
Words are symbols that assume a shared memory. The memory I now want to set down is mine alone; all those who share it have died. The mystics invoke a rose, a kiss, a bird that is all birds, a sun that is all the stars and the sun, a jug of wine, a garden, or the sexual act. Of these metaphors, none will serve me for that long, joyous night, which left us, tired out and happy, at the borders of dawn.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
To become more creative is to allow yourself the opportunity to become a playful, joyous child, to be courageous and not afraid to let go, and fun with your writing. By allowing your child to come out and play when you first begin to write, you'll be less judgemental, constricted, and rigid about your writing, and hopefully, the words will flow.
~ Rachel Friedman Ballon
Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous, and doing what you love to do, you are successful.
~ Joseph Murphy
You have the power to choose. Choose health and happiness. You can choose to be friendly, or you can choose to be unfriendly. Choose to be cooperative, joyous, friendly, lovable, and the whole world will respond. This is the best way to develop a wonderful personality.
~ Joseph Murphy
Consecrated life is an icon of the whole Christian life, and to live it fully and effectively and joyously one must understand that one is rich.
~ Walter Wagner
Because culture as such can have no temporal limits, a culture understands its past not as destiny, but as history, that is, as a narrative that has begun but points always toward the endlessly open. Culture is an enterprise of mortals, disdaining to protect themselves against surprise. Living in the strength of their vision, they eschew power and make joyous play of boundaries.
~ James P Carse
Pagan? Ah,that is a joyous word for the aridity of Godless modern man!
~ Doris Lessing
She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.
~ Dorothy West
It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse—'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!
~ Alan Light
It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.
~ Viola Davis
Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
~ Lucretius
death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I like what is joyous and agreeable," he ejaculated, "I hate what is disagreeable and melancholy.
~ David Cecil
he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.
~ David Halberstam
One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.
~ Royston Lambert
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
~ Linus Pauling
I could not believe in the joyous morning bound. It was disbelief well-founded: thirty-five years between then and now, and while I rise punctually I do so grudgingly; each morning brings its own renewal of the battle....
~ Edwin O'Connor
I glances at Sloane, who was having a joyous reunion with fifty close friends she hadn`t seen since yesterday.
~ Alex Flinn
I glanced at Sloane, who was having a joyous reunion with fifty close friends she hadn`t seen since yesterday.
~ Alex Flinn Beastly
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
~ Andy Murray
She did a little soul-searching, the way one does on the big birthdays. She asked herself when was the last time she'd felt truly light, joyous, and—yes—creative in her own skin. To her shock, she realized that it had been decades since she'd felt that way.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
~ Robert Plant