I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
Eddie Albert

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
Christopher Meloni

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
Christopher Meloni

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Laurie Anderson

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
Patricia Heaton

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.
Rita Dove

The joy late coming late departs.
Lewis J. Bates

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
Kevin Costner

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Tobias Wolff

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
Charles Kuralt

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Jean Paul

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson