Joy Quote by Christina McKenna

“He had all the pleasure of going to be happy.”

— Robert M. Coates

“He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them desire, to…

— George Sayer

“Don't you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being?”

— Kristin Cashore

“It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won, but something to carry doggedly with…

— Laini Taylor

“Something new seemed to be accomplishing itself within him, and one of the things that went with it was a kind of craving for…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had happened to…

— Toni Morrison

“I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy…

— Isaac Marion

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

— Colum McCann

“He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“But you couldn’t enjoy the fact that he was in a good mood, because it was the kind of good mood that was just…

— Rainbow Rowell