#joys

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. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#cameras #coffee #come #does #down

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#heaven #joys #nature #perfect #satisfy

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#been #before #body #chairman #committee

Joys divided are increased. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#increased #joys

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#doors #education #excel #experience #how

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#downs #great #joys #life #losses

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#full #joys #often #only #our