Delight Quotes
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Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.
Sara Teasdale -
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Jane Austen
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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
Confucius -
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
Seth Godin -
TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
Mona Singh -
He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight.
Bentley Little -
And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
Seneca the Younger
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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
Minoru Yamasaki -
Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
Seth Godin -
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
Brian Swimme -
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
Gerald Durrell -
Delight in the little things.
Rudyard Kipling -
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
Jane Austen
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
Albert Camus -
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim -
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade -
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha -
If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
Seth Godin -
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Virginia Woolf
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
Seneca the Younger -
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
William Carey Jones -
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
Richard Rolle -
I was daily his delight, Rejoicing before him always, Rejoicing in his inhabited world And delighting in the human race.
Bart Ehrman