Take Delight Quotes

24 Take Delight quotes by 23 unique 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. They’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 orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
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
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
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. — Italo Calvino
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in… — Alphonsus Liguori
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters… — Jan Hus
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. Theyre right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see… — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Who Wrote These Take Delight Quotes

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