Joys Quotes

642 Joys quotes by 489 unique authors

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place… — Anais Nin
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. — Alice Walker
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps — Victor Hugo
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. — Thomas Fuller
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. — William Blake
Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the… — Pablo Neruda
I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly… — Joshua Chamberlain
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in… — Robert E. Lee
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin
And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to… — Albert Camus
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they… — Ezra Taft Benson
This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have,… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes… — Madeleine L'Engle
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest… — Marc Bekoff
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile… — Nick Hornby
Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once… — Viktor E. Frankl
Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys… — Emily Bronte
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that… — Anne Fadiman
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the… — Anais Nin
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the… — Leon Uris
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom — Alfred Jarry

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