Delight Quotes

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.