All Quotes By Tag: Joy

“We stood at the window, gazing on a slender, red streak over the eastern rim of the earth. A cool breeze lapped our faces. The boundaries of our personalities suddenly dissolved. It was a moment of rare, immutable joy–a moment for which one feels grateful to Life and Death.”

“Happiness is a feeling/emotion, but Joy is state of ‘being’. One does not depend on your external circumstances, the other does.”

“If you’re concerned with how you look when you smile, you’re doing it wrong.”

“The world is far too lovely to be sad all the time.”

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy”

“It’s when a rainbow smiles that sadness is banished from the land.”

“Books. Just the word brings me joy!”

“We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that’s how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.”

“Listening to her heartbeat, ‘I love you’ He said.”

“Focus on what you love, what brings you joy, what brings you happiness and allow that to expand.”

“Joy is the manifestation of the Creator’s Power, illumining a world in darkness.”

“You don’t have to be in a perfect situation to be happy.You just have to feel at peace with the world.”

“Say something to make my day not break my day!”

“I felt something rise inside me then, a feeling of joy and anticipation so great that it seemed as if this world had briefly stopped turning, like there was just me and the universe and a million good things that could happen if you only hung on in there.”

“How we spend our days,” author Annie Dillard writes, is “how we spend our lives.” Rather than waiting until we’re happy to enjoy the small things, we should go and do the small things that make us happy. After a depressing divorce, a friend of mine made a list of things she enjoyed–listening to musicals, seeing her nieces and nephews, looking at art books, eating flan–and made a vow to do one thing on the list after work each day. As blogger Tim Urban describes it, happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.”