No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. Toni Morrison
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone. Mitch Albom
To-day, whatever may annoy, The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy. John Kendrick Bangs
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. James Joyce