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)

“Since every man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)