#joys

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#grieves #joys #parents #secret #their

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #enjoys #himself #incomparable #others

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. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#beginning #casting #dross #everything #fifteen

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? ↗

— Gerard Way

#gerard-way #killjoys #love #music #my-chemical-romance

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

#beautiful #believe #granddaughters #joys #life

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. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #better #cares #immeasurable #itself

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#average #contribute #details #effect #enjoyable

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#central #countries #enjoys #few #independence

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#facto #goes #heads #into #monopoly