Joys Quotes

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

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

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.

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

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

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

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

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

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

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

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