Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.
Erich Fromm

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Virgil

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh