Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not… — Meher Baba
Take delight in the simplest things. — Unknown Author
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. — John Ruskin
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my… — Amartya Sen
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that… — Sri Aurobindo
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the… — Michael Cunningham
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I… — Khalil Gibran
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so;… — Roger Cohen
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. — Mary Lou Retton
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find… — Julian Assange
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement… — John Masefield
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. — Raoul Vaneigem
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection — Raoul Vaneigem
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. — John Hanning Speke
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the… — Hildegard of Bingen
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer… — William McDonough
Life is not life at all without delight. — Coventry Patmore
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. — Billy Sunday
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for… — Charlotte Mason

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