I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to… — Justin Rosenstein 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
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious… — John Milton 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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. — Oprah Winfrey 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
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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