I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them… — Xunzi Copy Share Image
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing…… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises… — Robert Scoble Copy Share Image
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What are you giving him?" Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where… — Madlib Copy Share Image
![“One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.” quote by Xunzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf9/xunzi-35969_confused_one-must-remember-equality-yet-also-be-a_2726374.jpg)
![“Here in a nutshell is why Google continues to get hyped by everyone including me (notice who I work for). Google surprises [sic] you. Delights you. Gives you what you want (not always, but more often than the other engines).” quote by Robert Scoble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/robert-scoble-26677_delight_here-in-a-nutshell-is-why-google-continu_1438977.png)
