Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then,… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“All marriages are like this. The component parts are contempt and irritation because we know each other by heart, by rote; we're… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest,… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
