A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
