Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past. . . These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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.
One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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.
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.
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. . . . The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind. . . but as a path for realisation and salvation.
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.
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.