Quotes About Joy

In my opinion, walking over moss was as enjoyable as walking barefoot on the beach, if not more so.

Ahh... Is he gonna sing "Happy birthday" to her next ?

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

It's just another day for you and me in paradise.

Oh. I'm still alive. Yay.

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing," writes Chodron. "We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

baptized Christians have gone to Heaven. I can see you now starting on your journey to that place where there is no more sorrow or death. There you will rejoice and jump with joy just like calves released from their ropes.

A life well lived is the best antidote to that fatal truth. Be active, not a passive worrywart. Find magic in the moment, joy in making someone smile. Listen to a lover's sigh; look into the dancing eyes of a child you made feel special. Most of all, marvel at the wonder that eons of evolutionary time and all your unique experiences have joined to comprise the symphony that is YOU.

It's not the destination it's the glory of the ride.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Joys are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

Our purpose in the world is to gain joy and fulfillment though unity with the Creator. This purpose never changes. It is unaffected by the material conditions of our lives, including the state of our health.

No, no, let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration, and admire with love, and love with joy in the midst of all woes ; let us in such sort think, I say, that our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

I want this party.

Today, when I meet children on this beach, when I see them running in the dunes, or lying on the hot stone wall that was once a levee, I remember that I was like them once, with their incredible lightness and insouciance, soaking in the sun. You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.

I want to experience only the moment, not the looming certainty that I will lose that moment, not the certain awareness that, ultimately, this moment must slip from present to past, only the joy of the moment and the graze of memory.

Je reviens sur la piste, je danse encore, j'oublie mon corps, j'oublie la honte.