“Look! They are in full bloom!”— Pete Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Alexandra "Alix" Young-Cheng, Selena Tan, imdb.com
“Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real. More joy, then.”— Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, Niander Wallace, Jared Leto, imdb.com
“This school has a new kind of spirit energy. A sense of unity and joy which you usually cannot find unless you are at a birthday party or a public hanging.”— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for th…”— Bridget Carpenter, Sadie Dunhill, Sarah Gadon, imdb.com
“One woman can make you fly like an eagle, another can give you the strength of a lion, but only one in the cycle of life can fill your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.”— Robert Engels, Deputy Tommy “Hawk” Hill, Michael Horse, imdb.com
“Passion...it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us… passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments; the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, a…”— David Tyron King, Angelus, David Boreanaz, imdb.com
“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“…beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we pene…”— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com
“The joy of the Beloved is insane, we are madmen trapped in the curls of her hair.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”— Alexander Pope, quod.lib.umich.edu
“I haven’t felt this creative in years and I think it’s spilling over to my way-too-long project list.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning, Daughter of Elysium, Fire drunken we are ent’ring Heavenly, thy holy home! Thy enchantments bind together, What did custom stern divide, Every man becomes a brother, Where thy gentle wings abide.”— Friedrich Schiller, schillerinstitute.org
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service…”— John McCain, amazon.com
“I cried watching that game and not just because of the score. I cried because I do not know what happened to the joy of Brazilian football.”— Pele, espn.com
“The world's a scary place, you know? It can be really sad and stressful and negative. I try to counterbalance that. I believe everything in life is energy. If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a…”— Ellen Degeneres, goodhousekeeping.com
“I expected most contributors would follow the commencement-speech clichés of our high-achieving culture: dream big; set ambitious goals; try to change the world. In fact, a surprising number of people found their purpose by going the other way, by pursuing the small, happy life.”— David Brooks, nytimes.com
“I get these moments when I have to lie down because everything feels sort of too much. And I look up and see the blue, or the grey, or the black, and I feel myself melting into it. And, for like a split second, I feel free and happy. Innocent. Like a dog or an alien. Or a baby.”— Charlie Covell, Alyssa, Jessica Barden, imdb.com
“We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.”— Gilbert Baker, cnn.com