The ones whose faces showed that they never forgot for one instant that they did not belong to themselves, and that there was no lasting joy possible in life because of that.

But to most who lived through the bad years, the mere symbols of rebirth bring lasting joy.

The two friends continued to live in harmony and, for Agnes in particular, the change from her lodgings was a lasting joy.

To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box, denote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more lasting joys will result from this disappointment.

But that will not save the vessel--the pretty thing that might have been a lasting joy.

A sculptor's art you must employ, For a thing of beauty's a lasting joy!

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

But cooking was a more lasting joy, one he spent years trying to reprise in preparing large meals for various church events.

There is as much fleeting panic as lasting joy in the face of the pitcher who had just completed the first no-hitter of the 1992 season.

They, along with my immediate family, are the most precious people to me, the ones who bring me the most real and lasting joy.