Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
Brigitte Bardot

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Anne Sullivan

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
Chuck Close

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer

The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Moliere

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo