“Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.”

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.”

“There’s a joy without canker or cark,
There’s a pleasure eternally new,
’T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that’s ancient and blue.”

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

“Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found.”

“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”

“Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”

“You cannot wish for a good life that is full of joy and peace without sacrificing something in return.”