It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.” — Missionaries Who Love The Arab World Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and… — Christine Downing Copy Share Image
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The greatest player in the world. Ronaldinho? Absolutely. I just can't get enough of watching him play - he's a delight for… — Ruud van Nistelrooy Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image