Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight.… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet,… — Thomas a Kempis 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
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
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
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
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;… — William Wordsworth 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
