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I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.