Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live… — Socrates
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. — Hafez
Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless… — Gautama Buddha
I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in… — John Welwood
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight… — Jane Grigson
Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we… — Unknown Author
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. — Dalai Lama
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it… — Jane Grigson
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts… — Dawna Markova
Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for… — M. J. Ryan
Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best. — Gautama Buddha
I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of… — Ignatius of Antioch
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure. — Steven Levy
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. — Socrates
JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb. — Lance Ulanoff
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next — Gautama Buddha
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. — W. Somerset Maugham
When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green… — John O'Donohue
The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain. — William Shakespeare
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us… — Aaron Betsky
When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on… — William Shakespeare
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,… — Thomas Dunn English
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so… — Fritjof Capra
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire... — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.… — Pyotr Kapitsa

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