I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you will become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, with deeper interests and greater meaning. You can talk, think, and act yourself into enthusiasm or dullness and into monotony or into happiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and a surging depth of joy.

Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man’s letter.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

The joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed.

For an artist, "I don't know" is the hard time. It is the season between seasons when you are not sure what you are making and if you are making anything worthwhile. All artists go through seasons of rooted joy and seasons of rootless restlessness and doubt. It goes with the territory. If we knew, always, what it is we know, there would be no new land to push forward to. We would do and redo what it is we do — and that is not the artist's life. Ours is a life of invention.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follow like a shadow that never leaves.

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

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.