My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

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.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said Little creature formed of joy and mirth / Go love without the help of anything on earth.'

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

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.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was in every particular his ruling principle.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

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.

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