Delight Quotes

1447 Delight quotes by 904 unique authors

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like… — Sri Chinmoy
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. — Marcus Aurelius
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. — Meher Baba
If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love for the sheer… — Rajneesh
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It… — Rajneesh
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to… — Mark Victor Hansen
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in… — Alvin Francis Poussaint
Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ... — Robert Wyland
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — Unknown Author
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always… — James T. Rapier
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female. — Andrew Comiskey
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight. — John Suckling
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul… — James Russell Lowell
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. — Joan Erikson
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness! — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight… — Tenzin Palmo
Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling… — Irving Townsend
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor. — Champfleury

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