Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone el….

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million deci….

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me..

If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that lig….

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow..

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do….

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy..

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, i….

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret..

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions..

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been i….

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me y….

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation..

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning..

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness..

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-mind….

You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness m….

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwan….

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to mys….

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time..

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like..