“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“There's a party in my mind, and I hope it never stops There's a party up there all the time, and they'll party until they drop”— David Byrne, open.spotify.com
“It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be lik…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, en.wikiquote.org
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“It is one of life’s greatest joys to wake up in the morning… every morning, With a clear sense of why that day matters, why every day matters. This is what it means to find your WHY. This is the start of an inspiring journey… your inspiring journey. Inspire on”— Simon Sinek, startwithwhy.com
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com