Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
Gilbert Parker

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
John Galliano

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
Isabelle Adjani

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
Mercedes McCambridge

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
Dylan Moran

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Anne Rice

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
Little Richard