Joys Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.