Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
Children. . . they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.
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 very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.
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 joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
