Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi Minh

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
Al Sharpton

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Mortimer Adler

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
Jerry Lewis

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

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

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent