When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Find ecstasy in life, the mere sense of living is joy enough.

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

As long as I have rice to eat and pure water to drink I can find joy within.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

The goal of war is peace, of business leisure.

You start living for the obsession alone… You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you’re enjoying the road or not.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.