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Quotes About Joy

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
~ Euripides
I like the work that I get to do.
~ Famke Janssen
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
~ Fred Willard
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.
~ Frederick Lenz
Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
~ George Saunders
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
~ Harlan Howard
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
~ Helen Keller
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.
~ Helen Thomas
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
In books, or work, or healthful play.
~ Isaac Watts
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
~ J. G. Holland
In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.
~ J. Richard Clarke
It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.
~ James Franco
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
~ James Patterson
I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is work.
~ Jane Monheit
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
~ Jason Alexander
To me, making records isn't work.
~ Jeff Lynne