Take Delight Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life…
— Paulo Coelho
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Take delight in the simplest things.
— Unknown Author
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
— Confucius
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
— Alan Cohen
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of…
— Immanuel Kant
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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…
— Xunzi
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is.…
— Charles Edward Montague
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If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
— Meher Baba
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The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see…
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
— Franz Kafka
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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my…
— Jane Austen
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Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
Who Wrote These Take Delight Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Take Delight Quotes as follows: