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Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys. — Robin Sharma

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. — Sarah Bernhardt

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. — Bernard Moitessier

indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys. — Imbolo Mbue

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us? — Elizabeth Bibesco

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. — Dom DeLuise

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. — Isabel Allende

One by one bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go. — Adelaide Anne Procter

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love. — Bradley Chicho

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. — Thomas Fuller

Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! — Prince

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. — Ovid

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. — Roger Scruton

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. — Leslie Weatherhead

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. — John Fletcher

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson

Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight. — Ernie J Zelinski

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. — Oscar Wilde

If you have never forgiven someone who has hurt you deeply, you are yet to experience one of the joys of sublime living. — King Samuel Benson

Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement. — Vladimir Nabokov

Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. — John Keats

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. — Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far - and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high. — Megan McArdle

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them. — Isadora Duncan

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. — Aaron Hill

He'd planned on finding a miracle, and he'd found one. There were many other joys in store for him today in this newly born world... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. — Robert Louis Stevenson

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') — William Blake

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. — Martial

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep. — William Blake

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks ... who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it. — David Brin

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. — Stephen Daldry

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. — Ella Leya

Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green. — William Blake

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. — Bernard Darwin

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
comes to mar our joys. — Ovid

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

How one suffered for one's children - all their upsets a hurt; all their joys a triumph. 'And — Deryn Lake

We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot. — Alexander Pushkin

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science. — Robert H. Grubbs

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. — Herman Melville

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa

There is no greater misery than false joys. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life. — Genevieve Gerard

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. — William Blake

The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize. — Rukhsana Ahmad

Thanks be to God, not
only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.' — Adoniram Judson

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys. — Alphonse De Lamartine

You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. — Phineas Fletcher

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike. — Marsden Hartley

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it — Eugene Field

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh — Demi Lovato

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes ... and whatever lies upon the heart ... — Francis Bacon

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. — James Cronin

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like. — Billy Graham

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! — John Milton

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice. — Barry Parham

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake

Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse. — Cynthia Hand

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: What's the point? — Luke Davies

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. — Rumi

May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. — Julie Bowen

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. — Mark Akenside

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. — Andrew Solomon

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ... — Candace Wheeler

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation. — Thomas S. Monson

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. — William Blake

Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Therese Of Lisieux

Love, to her ear, was but a name,
Combin'd with vanity and shame;
Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
Bounded within the cloister wall. — Walter Scott

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are. — Colleen Coble

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets. — Peter Orner

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth. — Charles Henry Mackintosh

Joys divided are increased. — Josiah Gilbert Holland

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows. — Jeremias Gotthelf

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice. — Ezra Taft Benson

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? — John Shors

The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The — Jim Butcher

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is. — Mark Richards

Here's hoping that your special day
Will be more 'happy ever after'
With all the joys of friendship,
Love, fun and laughter — John Walter Bratton

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them. — Ben Sherwood

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch. — Patience Strong

I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. — Leo Tolstoy

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — Neil Diamond

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! — Robert Gilfillan