A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.
Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.
Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
