Top 1200 Joys Of Childhood Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

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.

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

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

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

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

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.

And that's one of the joys of the MCU universe... it has so many different paths and lanes and stories, and they don't shy away from neither the controversial nor the emotional.

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those from the past.

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

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.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

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, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

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

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

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.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

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

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

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