A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An older sister is a friend and defender; a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their… — Thomas Yalden Copy Share Image
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio,… — Tom Sturridge 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
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses… — William Blake Copy Share Image
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis Copy Share Image
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
