Quotes about Joy

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Anne reveled in the world of color about her. Oh, Marilla, she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, 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?

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, Gilbert had objected. I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy. -Anne

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.