She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions, with suspicion and reserve. We who love our… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me...… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to… — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
