What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in… — Pyotr Kapitsa Copy Share Image
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring… — Selena Fox Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving 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
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these… — DeBarra Mayo Copy Share Image
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
