Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God wants us to delight in living His purpose for us, which is why our passion plays a huge part! — Paige Omartian Copy Share Image
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors. — Delhi Ganesh Copy Share Image
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
“But supposing I could be so generous as to take delight in this, stil it is only a child; and I can't… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the… — Oswald Chambers 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
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. — Rumi Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my time on 'Doctor Who.' The team were a delight to work with and everyone was very supportive… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image