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.
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
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.
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.
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.
If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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.
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.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
It's very important to realize that every person that you meet, everything that you do, with the right attitude and a little awareness and skillful means - we can transform everything - all our joys and sorrows.
One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!