The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors. — Delhi Ganesh Copy Share Image
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and… — Virginia Woolf 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
A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the… — John Armstrong 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
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry… — Sark Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my time on 'Doctor Who.' The team were a delight to work with and everyone was very supportive… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
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