Quotes about joy

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Quotes

  1. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill—several thrills? I'm going to decorate my room with them."

  2. "What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one."

  3. Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

  4. Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

    p. 86

  5. If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

  6. Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.

    p. 57

  7. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play.

  8. And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.

  9. It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

  10. I am mad with joy.--At least I think it's joy.

  11. Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.

  12. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.