Quotes about Joys

Joys divided are increased. Votes: 3

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. Votes: 3

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. Votes: 3

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. Votes: 3

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt. Votes: 3

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. Votes: 3

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! Votes: 3

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. Votes: 3

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. Votes: 3

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength. Votes: 3

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Votes: 3

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. Votes: 3

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-. Votes: 3

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go. Votes: 3

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. Votes: 3

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. Votes: 3

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Votes: 3

Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids. Votes: 3

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest. Votes: 3

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. Votes: 2

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. Votes: 2

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Votes: 2

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Votes: 2

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. Votes: 2

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Votes: 2

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. Votes: 2

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. Votes: 2

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. Votes: 2

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. Votes: 2

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. Votes: 2

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Votes: 2

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. Votes: 2

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. Votes: 2

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. Votes: 2

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Votes: 2

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Votes: 2

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. Votes: 2

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. Votes: 2

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes. Votes: 2

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Votes: 2

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. Votes: 2

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. Votes: 2

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. Votes: 2

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. Votes: 2

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. Votes: 2

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Votes: 2

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys. Votes: 1

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world. Votes: 1

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family. Votes: 1

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for. Votes: 1

May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. Votes: 1

Home joys are blessed of heaven. Votes: 0

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. Votes: 0

Great joys, like griefs, are silent. Votes: 0

Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs Votes: 0

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. Votes: 0

Sometimes small things lead to great joys. Votes: 0

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. Votes: 0

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. Votes: 0

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Votes: 0

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber. Votes: 0

One of the joys about acting is researching. Votes: 0

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys. Votes: 0

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. Votes: 0

There are joys which long to be ours Votes: 0

There is no greater misery than false joys. Votes: 0

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. Votes: 0

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights. Votes: 0

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. Votes: 0

He that fears death loses the joys of life. Votes: 0

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse. Votes: 0

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. Votes: 0

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. Votes: 0

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance Votes: 0

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Votes: 0

Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants. Votes: 0

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent. Votes: 0

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes? Votes: 0

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. Votes: 0

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. Votes: 0

Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. Votes: 0

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. Votes: 0

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past. Votes: 0

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life Votes: 0

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Votes: 0

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased. Votes: 0

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses Votes: 0

But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared. Votes: 0

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy. Votes: 0

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty. Votes: 0

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. Votes: 0

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. Votes: 0

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. Votes: 0

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. Votes: 0

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Votes: 0

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. Votes: 0

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. Votes: 0

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. Votes: 0

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? Votes: 0

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life. Votes: 0

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses. Votes: 0

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. Votes: 0

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh Votes: 0

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. Votes: 0

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. Votes: 0

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. Votes: 0

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed. Votes: 0

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water. Votes: 0

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. Votes: 0

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy. Votes: 0

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. Votes: 0

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. Votes: 0

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Votes: 0

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. Votes: 0

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years. Votes: 0

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. Votes: 0

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. Votes: 0

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Votes: 0

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. Votes: 0

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Votes: 0

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils. Votes: 0

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. Votes: 0

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. Votes: 0

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. Votes: 0

Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails. Votes: 0

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. Votes: 0

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. Votes: 0

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. Votes: 0

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. Votes: 0

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice. Votes: 0

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer! Votes: 0

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food. Votes: 0

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them. Votes: 0

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed. Votes: 0

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life. Votes: 0

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people. Votes: 0

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Votes: 0

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. Votes: 0

A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys. Votes: 0

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys. Votes: 0

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man. Votes: 0

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Votes: 0

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden. Votes: 0

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. Votes: 0

These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. Votes: 0

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. Votes: 0

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys. Votes: 0

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. Votes: 0

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. Votes: 0

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. Votes: 0

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. Votes: 0

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. Votes: 0

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love. Votes: 0

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. Votes: 0

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. Votes: 0

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees Votes: 0

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. Votes: 0

Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. Votes: 0

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. Votes: 0

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. Votes: 0

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Votes: 0

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. Votes: 0

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali... Votes: 0

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. Votes: 0

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical. Votes: 0

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. Votes: 0

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. Votes: 0

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys. Votes: 0

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems. Votes: 0

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Votes: 0

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. Votes: 0

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps Votes: 0

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. Votes: 0

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. Votes: 0

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. Votes: 0

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. Votes: 0

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. Votes: 0

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life. Votes: 0

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. Votes: 0

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. Votes: 0

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven. Votes: 0

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, - health, peace, and competence Votes: 0

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.] Votes: 0

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. Votes: 0

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs. Votes: 0

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. Votes: 0

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school. Votes: 0

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Votes: 0

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child? Votes: 0

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Votes: 0

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. Votes: 0

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. Votes: 0

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses. Votes: 0

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations Votes: 0

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. Votes: 0

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. Votes: 0

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. Votes: 0

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony. Votes: 0

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. Votes: 0

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys. Votes: 0

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom Votes: 0

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets. Votes: 0

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music. Votes: 0

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep. Votes: 0

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime. Votes: 0

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous Votes: 0

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. Votes: 0

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. Votes: 0

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. Votes: 0

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.' Votes: 0

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible. Votes: 0

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. Votes: 0

We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given. Votes: 0

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day. Votes: 0

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. Votes: 0

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. Votes: 0

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss. Votes: 0

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. Votes: 0

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth. Votes: 0

one of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ... Votes: 0

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. Votes: 0

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. Votes: 0

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. Votes: 0

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear. Votes: 0

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science. Votes: 0

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you. Votes: 0

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it. Votes: 0

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. Votes: 0

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring. Votes: 0

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years. Votes: 0

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. Votes: 0

We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. Votes: 0

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys. Votes: 0

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? Votes: 0

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing. Votes: 0

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. Votes: 0

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. Votes: 0

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. Votes: 0

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man. Votes: 0

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. Votes: 0

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects. Votes: 0

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. Votes: 0

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all Votes: 0

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Votes: 0

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. Votes: 0

The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead. Votes: 0

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all... Votes: 0

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day? Votes: 0

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? Votes: 0

Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green. Votes: 0

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. Votes: 0

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. Votes: 0

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world. Votes: 0

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Votes: 0

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. Votes: 0

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. Votes: 0

Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter Votes: 0

Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights. Votes: 0

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') Votes: 0

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby. Votes: 0

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. Votes: 0

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last Votes: 0

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. Votes: 0

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. Votes: 0

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys. Votes: 0

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. Votes: 0

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Votes: 0

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. Votes: 0

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want. Votes: 0

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways Votes: 0

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient. Votes: 0

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Votes: 0

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. Votes: 0

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. Votes: 0

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death. Votes: 0

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation. Votes: 0

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside. Votes: 0

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.... Votes: 0

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. Votes: 0

May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential. Votes: 0

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! Votes: 0

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life. Votes: 0

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch. Votes: 0

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. Votes: 0

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. Votes: 0

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ... Votes: 0

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. Votes: 0

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. Votes: 0

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice. Votes: 0

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity. Votes: 0

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser. Votes: 0

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures. Votes: 0

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys. Votes: 0

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. Votes: 0

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh. Votes: 0

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. Votes: 0

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. Votes: 0

Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight. Votes: 0

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you. Votes: 0

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. Votes: 0

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone. Votes: 0

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. Votes: 0

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply. Votes: 0

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Votes: 0

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. Votes: 0

The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. Votes: 0

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart. Votes: 0

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land. Votes: 0

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. Votes: 0

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. Votes: 0

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. Votes: 0

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Votes: 0

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far"”and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high. Votes: 0

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. Votes: 0

The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power. Votes: 0

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be. Votes: 0

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. Votes: 0

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you. Votes: 0

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. Votes: 0

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. Votes: 0

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. Votes: 0

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life. Votes: 0

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,Are babbled out and soon revealed. Votes: 0

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure. Votes: 0

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to. Votes: 0

To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave. Votes: 0

Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall. Votes: 0

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. Votes: 0

The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him. Votes: 0

There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you. Votes: 0

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. Votes: 0

Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts! Votes: 0

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it Votes: 0

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. Votes: 0

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike. Votes: 0

Just as the calm unruffled lake, mirrors the beauty of a scene, I would reflect to those who read, the joys of love and life serene". Votes: 0

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is. Votes: 0

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing. Votes: 0

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. Votes: 0

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Votes: 0

Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth. Votes: 0

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar? Votes: 0

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne. Votes: 0

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change. Votes: 0

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. Votes: 0

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old! Votes: 0

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Votes: 0

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own? Votes: 0

We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. Votes: 0

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain. Votes: 0

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. Votes: 0

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. Votes: 0

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. Votes: 0

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. Votes: 0

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. Votes: 0

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness. Votes: 0

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of Votes: 0

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. Votes: 0

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. Votes: 0

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. Votes: 0

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. Votes: 0

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. Votes: 0

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone. Votes: 0

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. Votes: 0

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ. Votes: 0

I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest "” so sweetly and so surely. Votes: 0

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements. Votes: 0

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records. Votes: 0

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace. Votes: 0

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like. Votes: 0

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. Votes: 0

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love. Votes: 0

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries. Votes: 0

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience. Votes: 0

Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS. Votes: 0

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. Votes: 0

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things. Votes: 0

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) Votes: 0

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. Votes: 0

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted. Votes: 0

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing. Votes: 0

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it. Votes: 0

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between. Votes: 0

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil. Votes: 0

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. "”Mama Ya-Ya Votes: 0

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now. Votes: 0

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys. Votes: 0

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons. Votes: 0

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. Votes: 0

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. Votes: 0

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell! Votes: 0

[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. Votes: 0

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle. Votes: 0

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. Votes: 0

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. Votes: 0

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows. Votes: 0

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys. Votes: 0

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. Votes: 0

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. Votes: 0

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. Votes: 0

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion. Votes: 0

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. Votes: 0

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me. Votes: 0

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be? Votes: 0

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys. Votes: 0

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys. Votes: 0

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness. Votes: 0

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours. Votes: 0

There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice. Votes: 0

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings. Votes: 0

Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. Votes: 0

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good! Votes: 0

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain. Votes: 0

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise Votes: 0

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles. Votes: 0

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence. Votes: 0

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself. Votes: 0

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes. Votes: 0

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God. Votes: 0

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life. Votes: 0

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ... Votes: 0

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows. Votes: 0

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated. Votes: 0

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights. Votes: 0

Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life. Votes: 0

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you? Votes: 0

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys. Votes: 0

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun. Votes: 0

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. Votes: 0

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell. Votes: 0

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move Votes: 0

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly. Votes: 0

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys. Votes: 0

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. Votes: 0

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. Votes: 0

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate. Votes: 0

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. Votes: 0

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. Votes: 0

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. Votes: 0

Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys. Votes: 0

All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana. Votes: 0

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. Votes: 0

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer? Votes: 0

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs. Votes: 0

To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. Votes: 0

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors. Votes: 0

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation. Votes: 0

If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind? Votes: 0

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life's joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world's sorrows, tasting the coming joy. Votes: 0

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. Votes: 0

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing." Votes: 0

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball... Votes: 0

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing. Votes: 0

Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. Votes: 0

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there Votes: 0

Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown. Votes: 0

Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the joys and pains of family have shaped your lives. Votes: 0

Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth partOf joys, which bless the loved and loving heart,Your words repentant and your sighs would prove,Lost is the time which is not past in love. Votes: 0

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. Votes: 0

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind. Votes: 0

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in. Votes: 0

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. Votes: 0

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys. Votes: 0

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards. Votes: 0

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together. Votes: 0

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering Votes: 0

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you. Votes: 0

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly. Votes: 0

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. Votes: 0

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live! Votes: 0

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed. Votes: 0

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night. Votes: 0