Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ~ Rene Descartes

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ~ Wilfred Grenfell

Think about a piece of music--some great symphony--we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment. ~ Alan Watts

Happiness depends on what happens; Joy does not. ~ Oswald Chamber

Scatter joy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is all this juice and all this joy? ~ Gerald Manley Hopkins

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. ~ Erica Jong

Let me never be afraid of endings or beginnings. Teach me to embrace all of life with joy. ~ Helen Lesman

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectural, 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 tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough. ~ Ravi Shankar

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