Quotes about Joy
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
— Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
— Oscar Wilde
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
— Oscar Wilde
Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.
— Confucius
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
— Cormac McCarthy
And that would be my life. And I would be happy.
— Cormac McCarthy
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
— DH Lawrence
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
— DH Lawrence
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
— DH Lawrence
Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another
— DH Lawrence
The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.
— DH Lawrence