To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, 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.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.