Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave… — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in… — Sam Storms 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
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
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Delight your self in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. — Michele Recket Copy Share Image
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“it made one drunk with delight to look upon it.” — Mark Twain Following the Equator Copy Share Image
