Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

The joy of the spirit is the measure of its power.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.