Joys Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

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

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

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

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

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

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

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

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.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

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.

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.

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

Joys divided are increased.

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.

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

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

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.

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.