Quotes about Joy

The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and sad, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one of us, are in it.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, Martin, Martin, come quickly! I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: Darling, it's empty!

Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.

When we look away from the importance of the erotic in the development and sustenance of our power, or when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.

I wish to live whatever life I have as fully and as sweetly as possible