The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . .… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Unimaginable to queens and doves I was caught between soft gasps of delight and the privileged serenity of taking in your smile… — Nit Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these… — DeBarra Mayo Copy Share Image
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
