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Joy Quotes


"I am burning within with an immeasurable, indescribable endless joy of life."


"All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take away the other person's cake! And, if the cake you had were beautiful enough, you wouldn't bother trying to melt the icing on that other person's cake! And if you always had a very beautiful cake that was always beautiful enough, then you would have a smile on your face all the time and wouldn't even care if other people were enjoying their own cakes! Because you'd be enjoying yours, too! Therefore, I hereby decree that all sorrows can be fixed by many beautiful cakes! Bake a cake!"


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


"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."


"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."


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



"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."


"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."


"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."


"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."


"Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized."


"There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see,How quick your lips smile back at me!"


"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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