Joys Quotes

642 Joys quotes by 489 unique authors

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. — Horace
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. — Henry David Thoreau
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of… — John Huston
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood,… — Russell Baker
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,… — Natalia Ginzburg
Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside,… — Rajneesh
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures… — Thomas Campion
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. — John Donne
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children.… — Louis de Bernieres
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating… — Gerard De Nerval
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her;… — Arnold Bennett
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power… — Edmond de Goncourt
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the… — Jeremy Northam
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work… — Aleister Crowley
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst… — Gene Robinson
There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in… — Frederick Lenz
There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure… — Frederick Lenz
One of the joys about acting is researching. — William Sanderson
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along… — Douglas Pagels
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. — Sophie Swetchine

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