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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

— Jane Austen

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

— Buddha

Comparison is the thief of joy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

— Rumi

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

— Rumi

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

— Charles Dickens

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

— Bertrand Russell

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

— John Keats

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

— Mark Twain

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it is good to be silly at the right moment.

— Horace

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

— Thomas Edison

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

— C. S. Lewis

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