...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable 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
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. — Rumi 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
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing....… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. — Emanuel Geibel Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with… — Demonax Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image