I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits… — Philipp Otto Runge Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted." This was my mantra when I published my first book in… — SARK Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
