Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Mahatma Gandhi
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. Michael Jordan
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.' Tiger Woods
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win. Jack Youngblood
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. Thomas Mann
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Oscar Wilde
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. Harlan Coben
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one? Margaret Atwood
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.Gautama Buddha
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. E. B. White Joy, Run, Laundry Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/e_b_white.html#BkZVLgqggKkifigO.99E.B.White
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? Logan Pearsall Smith