May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled. — Alexis Lichine Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our… — Gardiner Spring 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
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
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
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
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill 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
We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary… — Rob Brydon Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights. — Richard Barnfield Copy Share Image
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.” — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to… — Francis Turner Palgrave Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
