We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life in its real sense is lost.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciWith coarse rice to eat, with water to drink and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
ConfuciusIt is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyOn with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
Lord ByronThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinDiscovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck PalahniukThe happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.
AristotleEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel JohnsonSome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Bob MarleyCan one desire too much of a good thing?
William ShakespeareTwo things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard BachWhether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Rabindranath TagoreThe most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Rabindranath TagoreThe deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil GibranThrough all eternity to thee a joyful song I'll raise, for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.
Joseph AddisonThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman HesseIt is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
BuddhaThe youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy and of powerful operation, and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
Jane AustenRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John LubbockMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainWhy not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane AustenThings won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William ShakespeareAnd priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.
William BlakeWhoever 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.
Herman HesseMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
ConfuciusThoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
BuddhaThere 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 WildeWho is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin FranklinAlongside 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.
Sai BabaOnly 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 GoetheI sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. LewisIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar WildeMy crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William ShakespeareIt 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 BalzacFreedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
EpictetusHis own enjoyment, or his own ease, was in every particular his ruling principle.
Jane AustenWe 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.
Buddha