If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
Chris LeDoux

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Anna Freud

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy Sunday

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Lec

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de Lenclos

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac