Quotes About Joy

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

Well, I like to have fun at work.

People who love work, love life.

If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.