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 photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up -… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Jacques Amyot Copy Share Image
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“God wants His Word to be a delight to us, so much so that we meditate on it day and night.” — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware,… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave… — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we…” quote by Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e06/pema-ch-dr-n-327_accepting_over-time-as-the-thinking-mind-begins-to_1668545.png)
