Joy Quotes - page 7

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. (Daniel H. Pink)
There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. View quote
David Almond
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy. View quote
Emily Oster
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. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. View quote
Lionel Shriver
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. View quote
Doug Larson
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
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. View quote
Chris LeDoux
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. View quote
Conrad Veidt
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. (Ethel Waters)
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. View quote
Fiona Shaw
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
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. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
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. View quote
Kathy Mattea
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. View quote
Victoria Pratt
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view. View quote
Rachel Carson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. View quote
Rachel Carson
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. View quote
Pythagoras
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! View quote
Edmund Waller
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before. (Rollo May)
Love begets love. This torment is my joy. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life. View quote
David Zindell
LSD wanted to tell me something. ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. View quote
Albert Hofmann
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them? View quote
Alain de Botton