"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful."

-- Nina Grigoreva

"To miss the joy is to miss all."

-- William James

"You don't dance to get to the other side of the floor."

-- Alan Watts

"Joy is independent of our circumstances."

-- Greg Anderson

"The doorway to joy is marked gratitude."

-- Greg Anderson

"If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, that is your success."

-- Thoreau

"Spontaneous joyful times hold the keys to our natural strength."

-- Nancy Anderson

"Your confidence that your capacity to experience joy is internal and indestructible grows as you let go of joyful experiences and find that they are replaced by others even more wonderful."

-- Martha Beck

"All who joy would win must share it-- happiness was born a twin."

-- Lord Byron

"Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery."

-- Nietzsche

"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished."

-- Sammy Cahn

"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God."

-- Teilhard De Chardin

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

-- Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin

"The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy."

-- Paul Tillich

"Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely as a vehicle for joy."

-- George Santayana

"Surely joy is the condition of life."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experience."

-- Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi

"Joy is not a destination, it is a way of traveling."

-- Mary Manin Morrissey

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

-- Shakespeare

"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God."

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin