Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“In yourself you rouse us, giving us delight in glorifying you, because you made us with yourself as our goal, and our… — Augustine Copy Share Image
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
“All things are by Him and for Him. He utters Himself also for His own delight and sees that He is good.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace 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
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even… — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight. — James Gordon Lindsay Copy Share Image
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy. — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to… — John Hanning Speke Copy Share Image
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
