Joie de vivre Quote by Joshua Braff

“This is the essence of French joie de vivre. It is a gesture. An experience. It is the fleeting moment in time that can…

— Jamie Cat Callan

“Joie de vivre is about loving life, loving people, loving to be alive, feeling alive. It is about smiling, being in your heart, and…

— Jamie Cat Callan

“Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?”

— Colson Whitehead

“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for sinful shadows…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Days of gaiety – rays of deity. Infinite joy – eternal boy.”

— John Biccard

“any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt…

— Marie-Claire Blais

“Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and…

— Anonymous

“My heart space is open to receiving inspiration from the Divine. Because of this, my harvest will continue to be fruitful and bountiful.”

— Robin S. Baker

“Words are nothing more than the sky, crying, thunderous crystalline bolts of pure esoteric passion from the deepest crevices that hide beneath my rib-cage…

— Susan Marie

“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's…

— Franny Billingsley