If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence..

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a m….

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the da….

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire..

Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn'….

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born..

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter..

I think it’d be a great honor to be able to influence someone’s joy..

It always fascinates me how you can get so much joy listening to another person, when me, personally, I can only listen to myself and my music these ….

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the j….

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered..

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre..

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances..

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath s….

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze..

We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we….

Joy came always after pain..

There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing..

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game..

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that wa….

To read without joy is stupid..