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Joy Quotes


"Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart."


"To feel the joy of presence, do not try to express or impress."


"To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason."


"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."


"Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness."



"Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were winging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe."


"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."


"Smile more. Laugh more. Love more. Shine more."


"Savor every little bit of life and spin your own wonderfully beautiful web."


"Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming."


"The jump toward joy encompasses your life with boundless energy."


"The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."


"Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway."



"We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ['Happy days are back again']"


"Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies, cutting a swathe through the breeze and gently closing your eyes."


"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home, it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."


"While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't."



"Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to "en-joy-ment. ['The grass was greener over there']"


"With every sunrise, I rise with joy. My heart dances with love. I begin a new life fresh like a flower."


"It is so simple, to be happy think happiness."


"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer."


"Make peace with your now moment. Live in this very moment and be happy with what you have. Joy enters when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offering thanks for all the troubles we don't have. And be aware, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."


"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."
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