When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to… — Francis Turner Palgrave Copy Share Image
“Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.” — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
“I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach 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
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“When we're not looking seems to be the time when God finds the most delight in surprising us” — Mona Hodgson Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read! — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you]… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image