Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
I find ecstasy in living; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.
