“Delight in the Lord, He shall give you the desires of your heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“O happy wound, full of delight, He whom You wound Is joyous indeed.” — Jacopone da Todi Copy Share Image
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in… — Horace Copy Share Image
Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I broke my wrist on TV trying to do a one-armed push-up. A lot of people delight in pointing this out to… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
