As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin