joy Quotes

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.