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
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love. — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
“God gives us of the good things of this life, not only for necessity, but for delight, that we may not only… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled. — Alexis Lichine Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary… — Rob Brydon Copy Share Image
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired… — John Friend Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
