Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals… — Helen Keller
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. — Herman Melville
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom… — Josef Pieper
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… — Claude Bernard
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. — Georg Brandes
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury
What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love. — Zoe Weil
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates
The spirit of delight comes in small ways. — Robert Louis Stevenson
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question… — Sharon Salzberg
There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will. — William Carlos Williams
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. — Unknown Author
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of… — Karl Marx
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that… — Symeon the New Theologian
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a… — Fernando Botero
You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so… — Mark Schaefer
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts… — Ellen G. White
In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was… — Frank Capra
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of… — Bruno Bettelheim
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the… — Unknown Author
It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is… — Kurt Busiek
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular… — Ferdinand Mount
Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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