A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Bible - Psalms 30:5

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
René Descartes

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the self - same well from which your laughter rises was often - times filled with your tears.
Kahlil Gibran

Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
James Russell Lowell

Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Joy, love, are and appreciation are powerful motivators. They are all feelings that humans experience around the heart. Joy is a feeling of pleasure or delight that arises from the heart. Positive feelings are what make life worth living.
Find Your Joy by Following Your Heart, by Deborah Rozman


This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can.
George Bernard Shaw

 

Hung Tzu-Cheng
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.


You deserve the fun, the joy, the freedom, and the pure goodness that flows through the experience of love that indwells you... The choice is yours.
David McArthur and Bruce McArthur


Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh