Joy

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

    “Though logic-choppers rule the town,
    And every man and maid and boy
    Has marked a distant object down,
    An aimless joy is a pure joy....”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Silence and passion, joy and peace,
    An everlasting wash of air—
    Rome’s ghost since her
    decease.
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains of growth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
    Fred Rogers (20th century)