Joy Quotes

‘I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.’ – Greg Anderson

‘We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.’ – Buddha

‘Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.’ – Richard Bach

‘It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.’ – Kevyn Aucoin

‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.’ – John Keats

‘The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.’ – Christopher McCandless

‘Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.’ – Carlos Santana

‘The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.’ – Rumi

‘We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.’ – Max de Pree

‘Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.’ – Tecumseh

‘Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.’ – Helen Keller

‘Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.’ – Mark Twain

‘Beauty is whatever gives joy.’ – Edna St. Vincent Millay

‘There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.’ – Aeschylus

‘The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.’ – William Blake

‘Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal.’ – Tim Cook

‘Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.’ – Lao Tzu

‘The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.’ – Karl Barth

‘Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.’ – Menachem Begin

‘If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.’ – Eleonora Duse

‘God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.’ – Josie Loren

‘Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.’ – Ralph Ransom

‘Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.’ – Lord Byron

‘I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.’ – Brene Brown

‘Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.’ – Gilbert Baker

‘True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The only joy in the world is to begin.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Joy is the serious business of Heaven.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within – that’s sexy.’ – Leah LaBelle

‘The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.’ – will.i.am

‘I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.’ – Tim Tebow

‘God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.’ – Elsa Schiaparelli

‘It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.’ – Amelia Barr

‘Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.’ – Rosalind Russell

‘Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.’ – Albert Camus

‘The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.’ – Henry Ford

‘Joy is not in things; it is in us.’ – Richard Wagner

‘Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.’ – Claude Monet

‘Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.’ – Plato

‘There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.’ – Langston Hughes

‘Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.’ – Diogo Morgado

‘He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.’ – Moshe Safdie

‘A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.’ – Luis Barragan

‘Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such an important habit.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.’ – Liam Neeson

‘Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.’ – Walter Anderson

‘When you live a truthful life, you can smile without anything behind it; uninhibited joy knowing that you are doing your best to be the best person you can be.’ – Guy Sebastian

‘I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.’ – Ossie Davis

‘Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.’ – Anatole France

‘Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.’ – Maria Montessori

‘To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.’ – Delphine de Girardin

‘A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.’ – David Hume

‘Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.’ – Thomas Kinkade

‘Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.’ – W. H. Auden

‘I’m not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life – your deepest regret, your greatest joy – then we’re going to have a great chat.’ – Anh Do

‘Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.’ – Barry Williams

‘It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.’ – Hugh Sidey

‘Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.’ – Lucretius

‘Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.’ – Erik Erikson

‘Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.’ – Rollo May

‘Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.’ – John Donne

‘What’s the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There’s a lot of joy, and there’s a lot of loss.’ – Thomas French

‘Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.’ – Kailash Kher

‘When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too.’ – Harlan Coben

‘The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.’ – Eudora Welty

‘Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.’ – Zhuangzi

‘False expectations take away joy.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.’ – Ronaldinho

‘I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that ‘her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?” – John Wesley

‘The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.’ – Jean Paul

‘My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!’ – Anne Sullivan

‘I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful – for all of it.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.’ – Ayn Rand

‘The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.’ – John Piper

‘Joy comes from places you least expect it. It’s usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.’ – Dave Gahan

‘Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.’ – Lewis Carroll

‘When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.’ – James Brown

‘People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.’ – Pearl Bailey

‘There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.’ – Anais Nin

‘If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.’ – Penny Marshall

‘Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.’ – Sharon Draper

‘Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.’ – Ram Dass

‘Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.’ – Franz Schubert

‘Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don’t have one without the other.’ – William Hurt

‘There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘The soul’s joy lies in doing.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I’m interested in happiness.’ – Ruth Reichl

‘How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!’ – Robert Browning

‘Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.’ – Spider Robinson

‘Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.’ – Eileen Caddy

‘Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.’ – Frederick Buechner

‘Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.’ – Kent Nerburn

‘Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.’ – Audre Lorde

‘Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘People who look for the first time through a microscope say, ‘Now I see this, and then I see that,’ and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, ‘Why take so much trouble,’ and, ‘What good is it?” – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

‘To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.’ – Roger Ebert

‘If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.’ – Branch Rickey

‘When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.’ – William Blake

‘Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.’ – Thomas Merton

‘For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.’ – Robert Schumann

‘Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.’ – Stacy London

‘A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.’ – Billy Sunday

‘It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.’ – Mary Wollstonecraft

‘I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.’ – Doris Day

‘Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There’s no need to tell the children that.’ – Marcel Pagnol

‘Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.’ – Michael Stuhlbarg

‘We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.’ – E. B. White

‘African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.’ – Mos Def

‘Own your joy so that you can be happier and bring more energy to the world. That ripple effect works on a quantum level. It brings about changes in the world.’ – Gabrielle Bernstein

‘There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner’s World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.’ – Summer Sanders

‘When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.’ – Aleister Crowley

‘My father Rodger is your typical ‘funny without knowing it’ kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did.’ – Iain Stirling

‘When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.’ – Maxim Gorky

‘With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.’ – William Wordsworth

‘What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.’ – Jim Elliot

‘I don’t know how I got a great husband. I mean, God just blessed me with that one. Because – trust me – before him, I was not making good choices. So I was just absolutely blessed. I just prayed for that man He’s my secret weapon because he’s so gregarious, and he’s so filled with joy. Me? I can sometimes be more cynical, and I’m very shy.’ – Viola Davis

‘People who become ‘elite’ at what they do aren’t striving to be ‘elite’ just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.’ – Justine Musk

‘When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it’s the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc

‘Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.’ – Howard Cosell

‘Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle – my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.’ – Edward Everett Hale

‘I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life. I try not to take anything too seriously. I try to – and I do – find a ton of joy and happiness in my life, and I think that helps you stay youthful.’ – Sutton Foster

‘Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.’ – Bodhidharma

‘Depression and anxiety can’t fit in your head if you’re cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.’ – Austin Butler

‘The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?’ – Marquis de Sade

‘There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.’ – Clara Schumann

‘I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.’ – Malcolm Muggeridge

‘If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.’ – Josh Turner

‘When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.’ – Alexandra Stoddard

‘The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.’ – John Cheever

‘It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.’ – Marcela Valladolid

‘When you’re in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it’s another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It’s not the end. It’s not the end event.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.

‘There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.’ – Henri Bergson

‘Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.’ – Richard Holloway

‘We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.’ – Helen Keller

‘No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.’ – Jerome Lawrence

‘We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that’s very important to us – perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn’t always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.’ – Vicente del Bosque

‘May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘There’s no shame in a bronze medal. I used to think that, and I’m so ashamed of thinking that because there’s so much joy and hard work and love in this.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings

‘Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?’ – George Sand

‘When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘I can’t imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.’ – Josie Bissett

‘If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I don’t think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.’ – Percy Julian

‘It’s always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘Finding inventory in the backroom is not always a joy.’ – Doug McMillon

‘If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.’ – Ed Sullivan

‘Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It’s just less of your life invested.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.’ – Issey Miyake

‘I always was one who didn’t take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.’ – Chris LeDoux

‘When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.’ – Karl Ove Knausgard

‘The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.’ – Martin Seligman

‘It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.’ – Ellen G. White

‘The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘That’s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn’t have those things we’d just be numb.’ – Kathy Mattea

‘Pleasures flit by – they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.’ – Dmitri Mendeleev

‘Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.’ – Auguste Rodin

‘She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.’ – John Calvin

‘I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.’ – Sandra Oh

‘You don’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.’ – Chick Corea

‘With eye upraised his master’s looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man’s guardian, and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.’ – George Crabbe

‘I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.’ – Lorraine Hansberry

‘Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.’ – Bear Grylls

‘I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.’ – Nikolai Gogol

‘Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.’ – Felicia Hemans

‘Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.’ – Jonah Hill

‘I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.’ – Lupita Nyong’o

‘Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.’ – Ellsworth Kelly

‘Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.’ – Saint Bernard

‘Reading was and still is my real joy.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘There’s room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.’ – John Galliano

‘Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It’s about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.’ – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

‘All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.’ – Said Nursi

‘Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby’s diaper.’ – David Dastmalchian

‘Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?’ – Thiruvalluvar

‘I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.’ – Rene Descartes

‘Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.’ – Mark Twain

‘Joy always came after pain.’ – Guillaume Apollinaire

‘I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.’ – William Blake

‘There’s nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.’ – Julie Andrews

‘I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.’ – Rita Levi-Montalcini

‘Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.’ – Ninon de L’Enclos

‘The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Whenever I sing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ the way people sing along with me still excites me. It’s one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs ‘Holding out for a Hero’ and ‘Lost in France,’ and this gives me so much joy on stage.’ – Bonnie Tyler

‘When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.’ – Suze Orman

‘I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.’ – Jan Hus

‘Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.’ – Mireille Guiliano

‘I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up.’ – India Arie

‘If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.’ – Ralph Marston

‘I’ll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.’ – Rosemary Clooney

‘I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.’ – Yves Saint Laurent

‘While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘I’m real excited. I’m so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can’t keep quiet about it.’ – Brian Welch

‘I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘I don’t think Brian Cox does ‘The Wonders of the Solar System’ because he believes the world would be a better place if people understood about the rings of Saturn; I just think he finds physics extremely interesting. It brings him joy, and he wants to spread the love. I feel the same about economics.’ – Tim Harford

‘Going onstage – that’s my joy. You know like when you’re in school and you’re just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That’s me in life.’ – Burna Boy

‘I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.’ – Ntozake Shange

‘Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.’ – John Wooden

‘Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.’ – Tony Finau

‘When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music… of learning to play an instrument, of joining a band or an orchestra, and playing gigs.’ – Mick Hucknall

‘The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.’ – Irving Penn

‘Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.’ – Alan Cohen

‘As a gymnast, I’ve always compartmentalized my life, which is a blessing and a curse. But over time, I’ve learned that my sport doesn’t fully define me, and I think that’s where a lot of the joy in my routines comes from now: I’m not compartmentalizing as much, and I know who I am beyond my sport.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.’ – James M. Barrie

‘Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and – most of all – accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.’ – Andy Dunn

‘Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me… I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.’ – Egon Schiele

‘I cannot sleep – great joy is as restless as great sorrow.’ – Frances Burney

‘I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It’s such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas.’ – Rachel Boston

‘It’s all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.’ – Gilbert O’Sullivan

‘It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.’ – Robert Menzies

‘I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, ‘Oh! Will you look at that?’ Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don’t look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.’ – Harold Feinstein

‘Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.’ – Julie Foudy

‘After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I’m not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don’t tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.’ – Jay Kay

‘If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.’ – Joseph Wood Krutch

‘Life is a tragedy full of joy.’ – Bernard Malamud

‘What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.’ – Mark Fisher

‘Love begets love. This torment is my joy.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘I’ve got favorite sweatshirts and my Buffalo Bills sweatshirts that I’ve had for years. I will never abandon them. They are my pride and joy.’ – Chad Michael Murray

‘I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.’ – John Wesley

‘I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let’s bring joy back to the experience.’ – Sara Blakely

‘Instead of just surviving life and hoping to make it through one more day, I live my life with joy now, and I’m incredibly grateful.’ – Shannon Bream

‘We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.’ – John Lewis

‘There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.’ – Jean Paul

‘When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, ‘Thank you.’ Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.’ – Carole King

‘Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can’t ever let that stop us. We can’t ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it’s all digital and at a distance. There’s this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there’s been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.’ – Matthew Mercer

‘You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger – all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.’ – Common

‘Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.’ – Gerald Massey

‘You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.’ – Kelly Rutherford

‘With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn’t have to all make sense. I don’t have all the answers.’ – Taya Kyle

‘The most important thing in anyone’s life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.’ – Henri Cartier-Bresson

‘There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.’ – Guru Nanak

‘Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.’ – Jeremy Scott

‘Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.’ – Pope Francis

‘I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Life is about travel, and beauty in life, the love we find, the joy we have the laughs we have together. That’s what I’m dedicating the rest of my life to.’ – Philip Rosenthal

‘Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there’s still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.’ – Sai Baba

‘The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you’re in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that… don’t miss it.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.’ – John Burroughs

‘Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it’s been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It’s a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘We don’t make movies for critics. I’ve done four movies; there’s millions upon millions upon millions of people who’ve paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.’ – Michael Bay

‘Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.’ – Andre Gide

‘Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.’ – Adelaide Anne Procter

‘My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.’ – Udo Kier

‘When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion – with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.’ – Suzy Menkes

‘At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.’ – Huston Smith

‘Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.’ – Ann Reinking

‘I wanted Jesus in ‘A.D.’ to be very, very, very human – to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it’s almost complete, right? It’s all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.’ – Juan Pablo Di Pace

‘Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I’ve loved forever.’ – Pat McGrath

‘The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.’ – Helen Keller

‘I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.’ – Alban Berg

‘Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.’ – John Sterling

‘In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.’ – Alice Walker

‘I’ve never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I’ve always played with other musicians. It’s how I play, there’s no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.’ – Ringo Starr

‘Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn’t have to grow up.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.’ – William Blake

‘The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.’ – Doug Larson

‘Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.’ – Albert Einstein

‘If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they’re going to get up and tell their boss off… then I’ll be successful.’ – Bobby McFerrin

‘None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.

‘The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.’ – Gabrielle Roy

‘Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I feel I have this joy in my heart. I just want to make people feel.’ – Ann-Margret

‘Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I’ve done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.’ – Patti Smith

‘What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!’ – Brian Clough

‘I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.’ – Anthony Ray Hinton

‘It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!’ – Christopher McCandless

‘It’s such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It’s so lovely to live without fear.’ – Pattie Boyd

‘And that’s how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.’ – Henry Taube

‘Giving back – that’s the purest joy you can possibly have.’ – Daniel Jacobs

‘The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘There’s a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother’s face and the mother’s joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, ‘What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?” – Susan Sullivan

‘I do what I do because of Walt Disney – his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.’ – John Lasseter

‘Our past can be an opportunity to learn to feel happy, to feel joy, to feel power, to feel passion in your life.’ – Jay Shetty

‘All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.’ – Dylan Moran

‘God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God’s power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.’ – Josh McDowell

‘Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It’s gospel, and gospel is the truth. It’s what I do. I’m going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.’ – Mavis Staples

‘You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I’d buy a new album I’d invariably hate it the first time I heard it ’cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn’t grasp what they’d done, and I’d hate myself for that.’ – Andy Partridge

‘What I’ve realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.’ – Frans de Waal

‘I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.’ – Anais Nin

‘And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?” – Rudyard Kipling

‘Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road – you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.’ – Zadie Smith

‘I don’t quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.’ – Anne Bancroft

‘Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.’ – Joe Greene

‘And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.’ – Todd Barry

‘When you’re singing somebody else’s songs, it’s just pure joy to me.’ – John Prine

‘Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.’ – Lara Fabian

‘I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.’ – Dominique Moceanu

‘I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions – love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.’ – Paul Theroux

‘I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.’ – David Harewood

‘I’d say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote ‘Hallelujah,’ it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.’ – Gin Wigmore

‘Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.’ – Bernard Meltzer

‘If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.’ – Michel Onfray

‘Success isn’t about reaching your goals; it’s about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It’s that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.’ – Jimmy Barnes

‘In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘I don’t really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.’ – Eddie Albert

‘I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.’ – Jamie Blackley

‘The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that’s standing right in front of you.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘The nation’s government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.’ – Evita Peron

‘I’m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, ‘Hardly.’ You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.’ – Helen Fisher

‘That was my prayer – is that when people watch my videos for whatever that minute is, it takes their mind off of what’s going on in the world and it gives them a little bit of peace or a little bit of laughter or a little bit of joy.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘I love British cursing – the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.’ – Christopher Moore

‘My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.’ – Jennifer Garner

‘Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.’ – Victor Cherbuliez

‘Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it’s easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you’re waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you’re like, ‘This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ in high school.” – Jonathan Groff

‘I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.’ – John Rhys-Davies

‘If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.’ – Clara Schumann

‘Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Therefore the elect shall go forth… to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.’ – Peter Lombard

‘The world of Stevie Wonder – in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I’ve ever heard him do, every note he sings – that is so deeply inspiring to me in every way.’ – Jacob Collier

‘The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.’ – George Muller

‘It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.’ – Brene Brown

‘Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘As a child, Navratri is something I looked forward to the most -The joy of being young and being around your friends and pandal-hopping is something I will always cherish.’ – Raveena Tandon

‘This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.’ – Gabrielle Bernstein

‘There’s no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn’t know what he was doing; I couldn’t see the tricks.’ – Stephen Merchant

‘I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time… it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me.’ – W. S. Merwin

‘There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.’ – John Buchan

‘I was in a dark place for so many years. There was no joy.’ – Nigel Benn

‘There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.’ – Chuck Jones

‘Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? – Anna Freud’ – Anna Freud

‘Every person – with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness – can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.’ – Shari Arison

‘I mean the joy of doing the ‘Psych’ thing I have to say, is that, you know, I’d met them beforehand, James Roday and Timothy Omundson specifically. I met Dule Hill when I got up there. But they’re just, you know, a nice bunch of people.’ – Curt Smith

‘Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.’ – Eileen Caddy

‘Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It’s a magical, welcoming place.’ – Sarah J. Maas

‘I was with my mother at a mall when our car was suddenly surrounded by people. Initially, she loved seeing her son getting mobbed. Then the crowds started swelling, and they began to push and shove and tilt the car. My mom’s joy turned into anxiety.’ – Kartik Aaryan

‘One thing I’ve learned about life is that if you really let go, it’s just a joy ride.’ – Ricky Williams

‘Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.’ – Angela Lansbury

‘If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.’ – Andrew Wyeth

‘That’s where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it’s the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.’ – Luke Pasqualino

‘Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.’ – Tony Wilson

‘We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children’s faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.’ – William Jay Smith

‘I’m somebody who gets up every day and says, ‘What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?’ I think it moves me toward some outcome I’m hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.’ – Richard Rolle

‘Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.’ – Howard Wilkinson

‘How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.’ – Susan Glaspell

‘The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn’t ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I’m there for.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.’ – John Wesley

‘Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can’t put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you’re doing it from a position of correction.’ – Kevyn Aucoin

‘As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.’ – Solomon Ortiz

‘Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.’ – Shawn Achor

‘There’s nothing more daunting than a musical, but there’s also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.’ – Tim Curry

‘Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like ‘Grizzly Man’? It’s the sheer joy of storytelling – it’s the urge.’ – Werner Herzog

‘Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.’ – Ann Romney

‘Music gave me something that was not only good for me – it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for – but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.’ – Flea

‘Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.’ – Mark Twain

‘The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.’ – Jonathan Majors

‘Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.’ – Albert II of Belgium

‘I’m grounded in joy; I’m not grounded in the trauma anymore.’ – Tarana Burke

‘There’s no such thing as working too hard. Don’t throw in the towel. Keep trying. But always make time for playfulness and silliness and joy in every day.’ – Nicole Fosse

‘Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.’ – Leon Redbone

‘They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I’ve ever seen.’ – Morena Baccarin

‘Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘It was a joy to do something sensual and sexy. It was exciting. I don’t get many of those types of roles.’ – Mariette Hartley

‘We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.’ – Henry Fielding

‘A definite highlight was doing ‘The Brothers McMullen.’ Shooting that movie was such a joy – and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.’ – Connie Britton

‘Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don’t do most of the stuff that is out there, but it’s a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power – this light, if you will. I just think there aren’t enough projects in the world that do that.’ – Olivia Hussey

‘Our goal should be to achieve joy.’ – Ana Castillo

‘Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘For many women – myself included – pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.’ – Emily Oster

‘It doesn’t fill me with joy, being the gun guy.’ – Bob Morley

‘Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘It’s extremely important to convey joy and have enthusiasm and positivity as a coach.’ – Julian Nagelsmann

‘The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it’s caring, it’s dedicated, it’s diligent, it’s fun, it’s rewarding, it’s a joy.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘I’m not gonna be warded off the joy music bus.’ – Wesley Willis

‘No matter what is happening in life or in the world – war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones – if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar’s, and they called me immediately and said let’s do a regular night with you here. So we started FEMA Fridays. It was the only club open in the city, and a lot of people had a lot of money from Katrina, the checks and stuff, so the joy inside that club – I don’t think that’ll ever come back.’ – Big Freedia

‘There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people’s minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.’ – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

‘Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it’s what you don’t want.’ – Pete Holmes

‘We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.’ – Stjepan Hauser

‘The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.’ – Greg Anderson

‘I like winning. There’s also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.’ – Carl Icahn

‘A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don’t care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much – and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.’ – Jerry Hall

‘Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I’m trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.’ – Irving Penn

‘No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.’ – Franz Schubert

‘In Athens I was 17 and I didn’t have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn’t have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn’t want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.’ – Laure Manaudou

‘It’s astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That’s why a reporter’s job, as you know, is such a joy.’ – Mike Wallace

‘The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.’ – Mother Angelica

‘I baked the coffee cake recipe from ‘The Joy of Cooking’ over and over again when I was a kid.’ – Alex Guarnaschelli

‘The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.’ – Mario Batali

‘As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.’ – Helen Keller

‘I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.’ – Dolly Parton

‘To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn’t require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you – work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn’t have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.’ – Angela Bowie

‘The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.’ – William Blake

‘Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.’ – Bodhidharma

‘Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I’ve brought them some joy, and that’s unbelievably thrilling.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I always wanted to see people’s lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.’ – David D. Burns

‘Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.’ – Gregory Nunn

‘The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.’ – Stendhal

‘Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.’ – Giuseppe Zanotti

‘There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to yell their praises, and dance for joy.’ – Daniel Caesar

‘I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.’ – Steve Martin

‘If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.’ – Marie Kondo

‘You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like ‘Tears of Joy.” – Rick Ross

‘Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she’s crying tears of joy because she’s so excited about the life we have together. I’m preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.’ – Lewis Howes

‘As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props.’ – Nivin Pauly

‘The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.’ – Sunil Chhetri

‘Joy Reid is a racist sociopath.’ – Miranda Devine

‘One thing I do believe is I’m a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it’s in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.’ – David Gregory

‘It fills my heart with joy to know people love me genuinely because every day, that is my intent. To lead with love.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.’ – Eric Metaxas

‘I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one’s work.’ – Patti Smith

‘Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don’t let anyone steal your joy.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘Henry was perhaps more appreciated in England – I think he was a little underrated in France – but Thierry had everything you would want from a forward. He was so speedy, making it tough for us defenders to intervene. And he had such lucidity in front of goal. The famous side-foot finish he made his trademark was a thing of joy.’ – Marcel Desailly

‘We hope that our music does not stop at giving joy to the listeners but also change their lives positively.’ – Jisoo

‘In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.’ – William Ames

‘I find joy in giving donations.’ – Sudha Murty

‘I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn’t want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.’ – Robert Smith

‘As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you’re not guaranteed to receive that back. And that’s OK. That’s alright.’ – Logic

‘I’m trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.’ – Shawn Johnson

‘That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That’s the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That’s you on the cover. If it sucks, it’s your fault.’ – Jenny Lewis

‘Basketball as a sport has brought me happiness, joy, education and a real sense of purpose.’ – Patty Mills

‘And working on ‘Grantchester’ is a joy. Ive been in the business for 35 years and Ive never been on a film set that is so joyous and life-affirming.’ – Robson Green

‘The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.’ – Mary Augusta Ward

‘My history helps other people in terms of treatment and lessons in recovery. It affects my daily routine, as my body is not the same as someone who has not had that kind of a situation, but only adds to the joy once the challenge of overcoming physical pain is met.’ – Melody Gardot

‘It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.’ – Liam Neeson

‘It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who’s having a good time. You sure as hell don’t want to be with somebody who’s having a bad day.’ – Wolfman Jack

‘A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we’ve faced historically. It’s the ability to love and laugh and experience joy still in so many ways.’ – KiKi Layne

‘I was in the gym seven hours a day, six times a week, and Sunday was my day of rest. So there wasn’t a lot of time that I had to myself, and obviously, that kind of ruined the joy of the sport.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order – older alternative, I guess.’ – Finn Wolfhard

‘Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?’ – Sara Teasdale

‘Even if some days I feel like I’m ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I’ve ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.’ – Ali Landry

‘The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don’t judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.’ – Henry Golding

‘Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Karaoke was my family’s happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate – and above all there was song.’ – Jenny Zhang

‘Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘I was able to shoot a movie like ‘Tree of Life’ because I had done ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien.’ The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you’re young.’ – Emmanuel Lubezki

‘The joy of being a chameleon on stage is that you can be anything, and yet you’re not any of those things as well.’ – Freddie Fox

‘I don’t know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you’re high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don’t derive any pleasure from running people down.’ – Kangana Ranaut

‘What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don’t take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.’ – Merrick Garland

‘The more I travel the more I see and know what people need. They need peace, they need joy and they need love.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc

‘The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic – the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘A ship’s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew’s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.’ – Tomas Transtromer

‘I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.’ – Natalie Martinez

‘I always had that joy of the game in my eyes everywhere I played, because it was the best thing, but Brescia probably had less pressure. Maybe people might perceive more enjoyment because the pressure was different, but it was the same. I enjoyed the pressure, no problem!’ – Roberto Baggio

‘I love my kids. They are the greatest thing I’ve ever done with my life, and they bring me joy every day.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it’s always going to be the same.’ – Mel Gibson

‘It’s the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.’ – Paul Prudhomme

‘Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.’ – Amanda Holden

‘When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.’ – Debbie Ford

‘For the most part yes, I am positive, I think because I’ve been through so many bad times. I made a decision that if I got through those, I’m going to choose happiness, I’m going to choose joy, and I’m always going to look for the positive.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.’ – Peter O’Toole

‘These movements aren’t about anger. We’re not angrily saying ‘Black Lives Matter.’ We’re declaring it. It’s a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.’ – Debbi Fields

‘I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.’ – Shawn Achor

‘Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.’ – Ed Asner

‘When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘Holy Joy were a cult ’80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.’ – Irvine Welsh

”Seat at the Table’ has expressed real adversity, struggle, and also triumph and joy.’ – Kelela

‘It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I’m not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘As I got older, I’d say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.’ – David Lambert

‘But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I’d recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art.’ – Jay Shetty

‘I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I’m not happy with, the sad part.’ – Roy Haynes

‘I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!’ – William Blake

‘The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.’ – Joyce Grenfell

‘We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It’s a joy to be able to do it.’ – Glenn Tipton

‘To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.’ – Gary Hamel

‘It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.’ – Niki de St. Phalle

‘I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.’ – Said Nursi

‘I loved that playing the guitar wasn’t easy. It was pain, but it was my pain. And then it became joy. My joy.’ – Joe Satriani

‘If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.’ – Heather Brooke

‘I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it’s there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn’t dead.’ – Lynda Barry

‘I wanted to help people find their way back to some joy and some freedom and love and happiness.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.’ – Christo

‘To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don’t know about.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It’s a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It’s very often discomfort. It’s some sort of explosive reaction. It’s very complex.’ – Madeline Kahn

‘It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at ‘Star Trek.” – Harlan Ellison

‘Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.’ – Max Heindel

‘I think WCW will kill any kind of joy in your life. I think I started hating money. The money they paid me was insane, but I would be off and fly first-class airplane, luxury cars and hotels, and then arrive at the arena and have Eric Bischoff tell you 5-10 minutes after 6 P.M. that you are off tonight.’ – Bret Hart

‘At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.’ – Egon Schiele

‘A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won’t touch it. But I don’t think that’s the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.’ – Brian Setzer

‘I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.’ – John Denver

‘Discovering the ‘impossible’ ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you’re 16, there are qualities you wish you didn’t have, and then when you’re 30, you’re like, ‘Thank God I have that; otherwise, I’d be living less vividly.” – Greta Gerwig

‘I have worked hard and with joy.’ – Mirella Freni

‘I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.’ – Robert Pinsky

‘If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that’s the best of both worlds – and I’ll use those computers!’ – Don Bluth

‘Food should bring us joy.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘For me personally, joy comes from focusing on Jesus, others, and yourself.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, ‘Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.” – Katelyn Ohashi

‘The joy that isn’t shared dies young.’ – Anne Sexton

‘Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread – there may be.’ – Ray Stannard Baker

‘Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.’ – Merle Shain

‘Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.’ – Henry Miller

‘There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.’ – Jean Paul

‘The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.’ – Holbrook Jackson

‘The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that’s not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it’s a power – not being yourself, and being in the role; it’s just like another prop.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.’ – Juan Antonio Samaranch

‘Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.’ – Virgil

‘To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.’ – Simone Weil

‘There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.’ – Brooks Atkinson

‘Joy, has no cost.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!’ – John Dryden

‘Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God’s eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.’ – Alfred A. Montapert

‘Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?’ – Logan Pearsall Smith

‘I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.’ – Rob Schneider

‘From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.’ – James Beattie

‘I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.’ – Goran Persson

‘For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition – and winning.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.’ – Bob Barker

‘Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.’ – Bliss Carman

‘It’s very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he’s creating, the fact that he’s experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we’re in a brotherhood of some kind… we’re in it together.’ – Chick Corea

‘The poet’s expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.’ – Max Jacob

‘It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.’ – Barry Took

‘I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I’ve experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.’ – Luther Vandross

‘But somehow I feel like still it’s a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.’ – Bai Ling

‘I’ve been through some dark times but I’ve experienced joy too. Now that joy can’t be suppressed.’ – Michelle Shocked

‘I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts – the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.’ – Richard Wagner

‘Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.’ – Christopher Love

‘I’d like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.’ – James Stewart

‘Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.’ – George William Russell

‘Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.’ – John Wilkes

‘When I think about my new CD, the word ‘joy’ comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.’ – George Duke

‘It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars… knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.’ – Richard Baker

‘What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.’ – George Leigh Mallory

‘I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that’s embedded in the work.’ – Chuck Close

‘The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.’ – David Douglas

‘The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don’t have a director telling you how to do it.’ – Jim Dale

‘It’s such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.’ – Cecilia Bartoli

‘It’s a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it’s unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it’s really fantastic.’ – Cecilia Bartoli

‘To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.’ – Fiona Shaw

‘Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.’ – Fiona Shaw

‘But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I’ve made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.’ – Michael Bay

‘Tell me not of joy: there’s none Now my little sparrow’s gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!’ – William Cartwright

‘I didn’t think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.’ – Bill Forsyth

‘It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.’ – Bill Forsyth

‘We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.’ – Dylan Moran

‘And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.’ – Fran Drescher

‘There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn’t scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.’ – Victoria Jackson

‘Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.’ – Louise Fletcher

‘Ah, the pleasure, the joy – a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying ‘it’ll never happen’, only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.’ – Kamal Ahmed

‘You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!’ – Lewis Tappan

‘I think it’s safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.’ – Lindsay Wagner

‘A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘Pain is pain, joy is joy – you can’t avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.’ – Joshua Leonard

‘And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that’s how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.’ – David Selby

‘If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!’ – Matthew Simpson

‘The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.’ – Gabriel Marcel

‘I think I’ve grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn’t necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles… there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.’ – Terri Clark

‘Because I actually find the next take after they’ve controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that’s still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.’ – Jay Roach

‘It’s a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.’ – Jon Crosby

‘Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.’ – Randy West

‘That’s where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!’ – Randy West

‘Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn’t come out we’d have been very disappointed.’ – Terence Fisher

‘Acting isn’t the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn’t act anymore.’ – Victoria Pratt

‘There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.’ – Victoria Pratt

‘From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.’ – George Peppard

‘Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.’ – Joanna Southcott

‘The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.’ – Rowan Williams

‘Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.’ – Tony Snow

‘Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.’ – Arthur Hiller

‘There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.’ – Isabelle Adjani

‘I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don’t look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn’t appeal to me.’ – Kevin Costner

‘I’m world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I’ve been able to bring them some joy from the movies I’ve made.’ – Tony Curtis

‘When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn’t have to answer to anybody, and we didn’t have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.’ – Shelley Duvall

‘That’s the joy of art – it should be dangerous and challenging but it’s just art – it’s safe.’ – Val Kilmer

‘I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It’s always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.’ – Alice Hoffman

‘Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.’ – John Thorn

‘I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.’ – Leon Uris

‘I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.’ – Robbie Keane

‘And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.’ – Minoru Yamasaki

‘The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.’ – Charisma Carpenter

‘I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.’ – Patricia Heaton

‘And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.’ – Little Richard

‘I make a living doing what I love doing, and it’s what brings me joy.’ – Tom Cochrane

‘The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.’ – James Broughton

‘The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.’ – James Broughton

‘Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it’s not just me anymore. But it’s also brought me the most joy ever!’ – Nicole Appleton

‘The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.’ – Jack Youngblood

‘There’s a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.’ – Tobias Wolff

‘Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.’ – Joanna Lumley

‘I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.’ – Chuck Mangione

‘A great free joy surges through me when I work… with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.’ – Clyfford Still

‘I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.’ – Chuck Mangione

‘We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.’ – Johannes Rau

‘Joy is a subtle elf; I think one’s happiest when he forgets himself.’ – Cyril Tourneur

‘Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.’ – Lawrence Welk

‘It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.’ – Ethel Waters

‘Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.’ – Constantin Brancusi

‘The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.’ – Charles Perrault

‘My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.’ – Carroll O’Connor

‘See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.’ – Jamie Zawinski

‘Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.’ – Julie Andrews

‘It doesn’t matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn’t matter if you’re scared to death when the lights go on.’ – Mireille Mathieu

‘To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.’ – Rex Stout

‘A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what’s going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it’s a joy.’ – Kim Hunter

‘I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.’ – Mercedes McCambridge

‘Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.’ – Richard Krajicek

‘To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.’ – Philip Kaufman

‘It is now possible to quantify people’s levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.’ – Polly Toynbee

‘If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body’s sufferings. We shall become free.’ – Vinoba Bhave

‘Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘I know that. I’m having a ball. I’m not slap happy. I’m just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they’re back and they’re thriving.’ – Liza Minnelli

‘The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.’ – Bob Geldof

‘Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.’ – Bob Geldof

‘For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I’d lose the joy.’ – Matthew Ashford

‘It’s a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.’ – Don Johnson

‘The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.’ – Rita Dove

‘When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She’s happy, she’s thriving, she’s full of self-confidence. I tell her she’s beautiful every day before I send her off to school.’ – Lynn Johnston

‘As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.’ – Mel Torme

‘I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.’ – Garth Ennis

‘Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.’ – George Grosz

‘I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don’t let life in, we don’t take the journey.’ – Swoosie Kurtz

‘Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.’ – Roland Joffe

‘That’s what music has always been to me: a feel. I’ve listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.’ – Mike McCready

‘Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It’s a lot of fun.’ – Phil Collen

‘Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it’s worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.’ – Ruth Pitter

‘When I don’t plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don’t have joy.’ – Victoria Principal

‘People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that’s completely opposite of the truth.’ – Ann Druyan

‘But I think there’s a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach’s growling, I’m going to dance. That’s what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.’ – Jessica Hagedorn

‘The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.’ – Mary MacLane

‘I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘Look for joy in your life; it’s not always easy to find.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.’ – Ursula Andress

‘One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children’s childhoods is that I’m having my first childhood myself.’ – Al Sharpton

‘To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.’ – Martin Mull

‘When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease – of joy that kills.’ – Kate Chopin

‘The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.’ – Georges Rouault

‘To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.’ – Barbara Walters

‘A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.’ – Susanna Hoffs

‘So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that’s a great reward.’ – Genevieve Gorder

‘It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people.’ – Thomas Jordan Jarvis

‘What a joy it is to dance and sing!’ – Angela Carter

‘The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.’ – Moliere

‘The source of one’s joy is also often the source of one’s sorrow.’ – Jessamyn West

‘I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.’ – Anne Rice

‘Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.’ – Joe Moore

‘I don’t understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don’t know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.’ – Maria Jeritza

‘The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.’ – Thomas Mann

‘Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?” – Henry Miller

‘It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.’ – John Dos Passos

‘People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life – to learn something is a joy to me.’ – August Strindberg

‘We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.’ – Alice Walker

‘The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.’ – Joseph Epstein

‘The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don’t want.’ – Frank Butler

‘The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.’ – Germaine Greer

‘I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.’ – Bob Black

‘My joy knows no bounds… I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.’ – Olusegun Obasanjo

‘My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.’ – James Lafferty

‘The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.’ – Mary Frances Berry

‘I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I’m really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.’ – Dana Delany

‘Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don’t know if it’s a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can’t scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.’ – Jesse Eisenberg

‘Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!’ – Isabel Yosito

‘The idea is that we’re doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.’ – Lauren Ambrose

‘Something that’s such a joy in my life every day – cooking – is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.’ – Julia Roberts

‘I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever’s going on in that particular culture. It’s the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.’ – Trey Anastasio

‘The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I’ve just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.’ – Don Cheadle

‘I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn’t forget how to play while I was recovering. I don’t know if the cancer is gone for good. I don’t think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I’m able to play baseball.’ – Eric Davis

‘When you get pure joy out of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ or ‘seeing’, that’s when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.’ – Brendan Fehr

‘People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.’ – Thomas Kinkade

‘To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.’ – Gemma Ward

‘My baby is the joy in my life.’ – Candace Parker

‘Let me tell you, when you’re pregnant with the first one, it’s great of course, all new and ‘Yay!’ With the second one it’s still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.’ – Angie Harmon

‘I’m not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It’s a joy to be able to work on yet another film.’ – Jean-Claude Van Damme

‘Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.’ – Jermaine Jackson

‘It doesn’t matter how your child comes to you. I’ve never felt such joy and such love. It’s the most beautiful delicious little thing.’ – Didi Conn

‘The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.’ – Eugene Jarvis

‘Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it’s worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.’ – Ari Fleischer

‘Music is just such… it’s not therapy, but it’s a release, it’s a joy, it’s a pleasure. And it’s a job – which is weird, because I don’t think of it as a job.’ – Bryan Adams

‘Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.’ – Cathy Rigby

‘For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful – the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards – going after them. We shouldn’t be attacking the vulnerable.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘I want to be the joy to people through my work.’ – Gianni Versace

‘My son, he is the reason I got involved. It’s been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It’s a lot of fun for both of us.’ – Mario Lemieux

‘No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.’ – Bret Easton Ellis

‘It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue – but I would argue it nevertheless – that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music – both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing – is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.’ – Annabella Sciorra

‘I only really watch sport. That’s where you see real joy. I don’t like watching much else on TV, because it’s generally either twisted or sad.’ – Roger Milla

‘Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting ‘Chopped,’ say, I’m talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that’s not about the joy of food. That’s survival.’ – Ted Allen

‘The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.’ – Tim Finn

‘I guess I don’t think there’s any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.’ – Jeff Tweedy

‘Starting in the mid-’80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.’ – John Hawkes

‘Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don’t for a long time.’ – John Leguizamo

‘The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment – of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.’ – Gavyn Davies

‘I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.’ – George Michael

‘Well, I don’t think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.’ – Kenny Rogers

‘Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.’ – Mel Brooks

‘During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we’ve come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.’ – Julia Roberts

‘If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘It’s very hard to put forth a film that’s about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.’ – Laura Linney

‘Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.’ – Tim Cook

‘I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.’ – Bono

‘If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.’ – Jon Cryer

‘I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.’ – Archie Panjabi

‘We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.’ – Leonard Cohen

‘All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘There’s a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it’s overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.’ – William Shatner

‘My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.’ – William Shatner

‘You know what? Joy is the only guide. I’m going to have fun regardless.’ – Joseph Fiennes

‘I don’t want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.’ – Katarina Witt

‘I love making stuff. There’s a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.’ – Mike Myers

‘So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

‘These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.’ – Dave Matthews

‘But it’s often been the case, I’ve done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.’ – Helena Bonham Carter

‘So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it’s just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I’m just grateful for it.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn’t even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: ‘Thank you so much. You have changed my life.” – Tiger Woods

‘It’s been a joy to be a part of other people’s journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.’ – Ray Romano

‘Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it’s like to be 12 years old.’ – Joyce Maynard

‘I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!’ – Mariska Hargitay

‘I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father’s joy.’ – James McGreevey

‘When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing – and listen to her recordings – it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn’t had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘I don’t believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘I love working with different musicians in the studio, that’s a real joy working with someone for the first time.’ – Bob Seger

‘I think it’s tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.’ – Jason Mraz

‘I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.’ – Gloria Allred

‘My wife, whenever I’d go off to work and I’d be kind of anxious, she’ll say, ‘Remember, have fun.’ Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there’s a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.’ – Patti Page

‘Writing isn’t about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.’ – Harlan Coben

‘I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock ’em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.’ – Valerie Simpson

‘Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that’s what they do in ‘Harry Potter’: The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they’ve been near the Dementors!’ – Jane Siberry

‘I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I’m representing them and that I’m able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It’s a very pleasant thing.’ – Asghar Farhadi

‘Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.’ – David Byrne

‘When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I’ve found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I’m getting warmer, and that I’m more mystified by human interactions.’ – Jon Brion

‘I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.’ – Angie Stone

‘I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.’ – Angie Stone

‘I’ve always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.’ – Doug Collins

‘We’re losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.’ – Jaron Lanier

‘There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.’ – Zac Posen

‘But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.’ – Diane Lane

‘Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.’ – Bai Ling

‘The great joy of doing ‘The Daily Show’ for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I’m playing the brown guy, and sometimes I’m not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.’ – Aasif Mandvi

‘If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they’d be off TV. They’re not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we’d know who she was?’ – Adam Carolla

‘What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?’ – Nancy Grace

‘Well, I’d say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don’t go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘Of everything I have done, ‘The Archers’ always gets the most excitement; there’s a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.’ – Felicity Jones

‘When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it’s those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.’ – Ryan Adams

‘Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.’ – Ryan Adams

‘If I’m bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?’ – Ellen Pompeo

‘I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that’s not the case with all people and I don’t think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.’ – Lucy Hale

‘Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.’ – Josh Gad

‘It’s a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.’ – Len Cariou

‘I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa – the economic poverty, the corruption – there’s a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.’ – Youssou N’Dour

‘As a reader, I’m often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.’ – C. J. Box

‘I don’t have any great first job tales: I’ve never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.’ – Mary Gordon

‘It’s like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn’t have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that’s the joy of it.’ – Mitchell Hurwitz

‘I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!’ – Beth Ditto

‘I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It’s an honest descent into darkness. And you can’t have the joy without the grief – it’s why we listen to Mozart’s ‘Requiem.” – Andre Dubus III

‘One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I’ve had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I’ve brought readers to my dad’s work. I can’t tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father’s work was masterful.’ – Andre Dubus III

‘Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It’s cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson’s home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.’ – Camilla Lackberg

‘I’ve found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.’ – Ricky Schroder

‘Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.’ – Barry Hannah

‘I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I’d rather give them to people for free.’ – Takeshi Kitano

‘I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.’ – Bill Walton

‘People don’t understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can’t see the joy of your previous life.’ – John Walsh

‘I think it’s important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.’ – Ernie Hudson

‘I have family in Tanzania. I can’t even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.’ – Emanuel Cleaver

‘Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.’ – Linda Gray

‘My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it’s difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men’s and women’s brains are different – my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that’s part of their joy.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘I love that song ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’ from ‘My Fair Lady’ so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.’ – Elizabeth Meriwether

‘I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don’t feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it’s such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It’s my identity, it’s everything. And it’s given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose – I can’t imagine my life without it.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘So, I’m on ‘Sesame Street,’ walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There’s no irony. ‘Sesame Street’ is just a crazy great place to be.’ – Feist

‘And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.’ – Feist

‘I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart’s brother from another mother.’ – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

‘Marriage is a lot of things – a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it’s also an interpersonal battlefield, and it’s not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids – now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘Short stories consume you faster. They’re connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they’re also a total joy.’ – Ali Smith

‘I’m completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.’ – Florence Welch

‘Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He’s very young spirited, and it’s always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.’ – Tim DeKay

‘I still haven’t been able to capture the joy of what it’s like when I sing – you know, when I’m by myself, or like when I was a little kid.’ – Cat Power

‘I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six – and I’ve always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.’ – Josh Turner

‘I wish I had a little more joy of cooking – because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I’m so proud when things come out well.’ – Maura Tierney

‘There are some great actors I don’t want to meet because I don’t want to know how they did it. I don’t want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.’ – Rupert Friend

‘The joy of ‘Crash’ was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. ‘Crash’ was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.’ – Michael Pena

‘I’m sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I’m sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.’ – Jennifer Grant

‘Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn’t exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad – and in life in general – and his happiness showed.’ – Jennifer Grant

‘I was very lucky with ‘Soap’ and ‘Who’s the Boss,’ which was great fun, and then went on ‘Coach’ and ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ I’ve been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.’ – Katherine Helmond

‘For my whole career, I’ve been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I’m very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.’ – Jennifer Nettles

‘People think that when you’re connected with other people it’s more painful. The opposite is true. When you’re connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there’s a flow in the river.’ – Eve Ensler

‘This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll’s doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.’s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.’ – John Lahr

‘Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.’ – Marsha Norman

‘If someone wants to say ‘I love you’ in a straight play, they say it, and then it’s the other person’s turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.’ – Marsha Norman

‘I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.’ – Mark Helprin

‘I’ve made music since I was a kid so I’ve always gotten joy out of that.’ – Randy Houser

‘Books are like my one and only joy.’ – John Lydon

‘The joy of life is in the work.’ – John Lydon

‘My books are not generic. You know when you’re reading a Joy Fielding book.’ – Joy Fielding

‘I’d like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don’t count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.’ – Katherine Paterson

‘I don’t write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.’ – Pramoedya Ananta Toer

‘Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.’ – Sharon Creech

‘As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.’ – Richard Louv

‘Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it’s just about turning into metaphor whatever’s going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.’ – Grant Morrison

‘I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.’ – Inga Muscio

‘My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.’ – Jill McCorkle