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.
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
