Quotes On Little Joys

#1. The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

William Feather

#2. It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

James Ellis

#3. All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

Sathya Sai Baba

#4. Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights.

Balroop Singh

#5. I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Mitch Albom

#6. 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

#7. And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?

Kristin Cashore

#8. It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#9. The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.

Jon Foreman

#10. I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

Jeremy Taylor

#11. I'm beginning to recognise that real happiness isn't something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.

Beau Taplin

#12. Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces ... or my brothers ... in the audience. It comforts me.

Shreya Ghoshal

#14. I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.

Graham Hill

#15. I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

Allen Lacy

#16. As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.

Manprit Kaur

#17. I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

Andrew Roberts

#18. Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.

Paul Rudnick

#19. Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

Steven Amsterdam

#20. Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day;
And in one little word, our life, what is it but
To-day?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#21. Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking ... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys ... every line has its own meaning.

Sarah

#22. Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

Hannah More

#23. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. It is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#25. I requested off this damn night shift four times now. Barbara needs me. Barbara and little James. So I hope it's boy, so what?

Frank Miller

#26. A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

Thomas Traherne

#27. By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Choa Kok Sui

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

William Blake

#29. I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#30. I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

Matt Nix

#31. The secret is: a catapult is a joy in it self ... freude an sich ... it doesn't need a reason, it IS the reason.

Frances Winkler

#32. People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.

Alice Pung

#33. When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

Kristin Kreuk

#34. How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#35. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.

John Dewey

#36. Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

Horace

#37. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#38. You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery