Words matter. These are the best Joys Quotes from famous people such as Henry Reed, Naga Chaitanya, Goldie Hawn, Richard Lederer, Craig Brown, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage – our universal awareness.
I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies, and just be happy with the small joys of life.
Whether you’re successful or not, you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.
We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
There was no one moment when I decided I would spend my life acting. I am not certain that I will. Acting has never been a consistent passion. I have done it since I was young – so I have been acting for 30 years – but intermittently. I always had other jobs, joys, and creative outlets.
One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren’t lost forever; they live in your work.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world’s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It’s definitely one of my greatest joys, and I’m a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States – the greatest privilege on planet Earth.
To give people that first start in life is a tremendous privilege. It’s one of the great joys of being part of a growing company.
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there’s all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that’s what great drama, whether it’s the movies or the theater, that’s what it shows.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
One of the joys about acting is researching.
As I have gotten older, I’ve discovered the joys of being lazy.
One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn’t before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.
One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.
My son taught me a few tricks about card games and Rishona spent time painting with me. She would also make us dalgona coffee at times. These small joys of family life have made me a very happy person.
For me, the small joys of life make me happy.
I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
Whether art is music or cinema or whatever, it really is art only when it is in touch with the people – forced to respond to their agonies, their joys and their aspirations.
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I’ve even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met her aged 11, and she introduced me to the joys of poetry and literature. It opened my mind to ideas I could never have dreamed of.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
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.
It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law – even the prime minister – and no one, not even him, is above it.
Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
One of the small joys that’s easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
We need to recognize that we can’t allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don’t talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.
It is easy to fall into despair thinking about all that is wrong with the world. The joys seems so small in comparison. Internet videos of cats riding Roombas just can’t compete with a father talking about how his dead 13-year-old son had wanted to be a pilot.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
Being in a hotel room and watching ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ is one of my great joys.
However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live – live a complete life – live all our life.
