Take Delight Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

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
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
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
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
Take delight in the simplest things. — Unknown Author
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
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
Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness. — Alan Cohen
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. Theyâ€™re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see… — Jane Wilson-Howarth
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? — Franz Kafka
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
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchardâ€¦And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
Nothing in the world is permanent, and weâ€™re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely weâ€™re still more foolish not to take delight… — W. Somerset Maugham
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: