#joys

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

#appreciating #average #being #believe #career

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #cannot #carnal #deprived #joy

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