Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The truth is: We serve a generous God. He delights in giving us opportunities beyond our capabilities. He has promised to equip… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah,… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“ . . .—we’d been there [at a restaurant] for hours, laughing over little things but being serious too, very grave, she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . .… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate… — Alcuin Copy Share Image
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities.… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
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