176:the omnipresent Trinity :::
In practice three conceptions are necessary before there can be any possibility of Yoga; there must be, as it were, three consenting parties to the effort,-God, Nature and the human soul or, in more abstract language, the Transcendental, the Universal and the Individual. If the individual and Nature are left to themselves, the one is bound to the other and unable to exceed appreciably her lingering march. Something transcendent is needed, free from her and greater, which will act upon us and her, attracting us upward to Itself and securing from her by good grace or by force her consent to the individual ascension. It is this truth which makes necessary to every philosophy of Yoga the conception of the Ishwara, Lord, supreme Soul or supreme Self, towards whom the effort is directed and who gives the illuminating touch and the strength to attain. Equally true is the complementary idea so often enforced by the Yoga of devotion that as the Transcendent is necessary to the individual and sought after by him, so also the individual is necessary in a sense to the Transcendent and sought after by It. If the Bhakta seeks and yearns after Bhagavan, Bhagavan also seeks and yearns after the Bhakta. There can be no Yoga of knowledge without a human seeker of the knowledge, the supreme subject of knowledge and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of knowledge; no Yoga of devotion without the human God-lover, the supreme object of love and delight and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of spiritual, emotional and aesthetic enjoyment; no Yoga of works without the human worker, the supreme Will, Master of all works and sacrifices, and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of power and action. However Monistic maybe our intellectual conception of the highest truth of things, in practice we are compelled to accept this omnipresent Trinity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga,#KEYS |
177:The way of integral knowledge supposes that we are intended to arrive at an integral self-fulfilment and the only thing that is to be eliminated is our own unconsciousness, the Ignorance and the results of the Ignorance. Eliminate the falsity of the being which figures as the ego; then our true being can manifest in us. Eliminate the falsity of the life which figures as mere vital craving and the mechanical round of our corporeal existence; our true life in the power of the Godhead and the joy of the Infinite will appear. Eliminate the falsity of the senses with their subjection to material shows and to dual sensations; there is a greater sense in us that can open through these to the Divine in things and divinely reply to it. Eliminate the falsity of the heart with its turbid passions and desires and its dual emotions; a deeper heart in us can open with its divine love for all creatures and its infinite passion and yearning for the responses of the Infinite. Eliminate the falsity of the thought with its imperfect mental constructions, its arrogant assertions and denials, its limited and exclusive concentrations; a greater faculty of knowledge is behind that can open to the true Truth of God and the soul and Nature and the universe. An integral self-fulfilment, - an absolute, a culmination for the experiences of the heart, for its instinct of love, joy, devotion and worship; an absolute, a culmination for the senses, for their pursuit of divine beauty and good and delight in the forms of things; an absolute, a culmination for the life, for its pursuit of works, of divine power, mastery and perfection; an absolute, a culmination beyond its own limits for the thought, for its hunger after truth and light and divine wisdom and knowledge. Not something quite other than themselves from which they are all cast away is the end of these things in our nature, but something supreme in which they at once transcend themselves and find their own absolutes and infinitudes, their harmonies beyond measure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Object of Knowledge,#KEYS |
178:separating from the heart and mind and the benefits of doing so :::
Therefore the mental Purusha has to separate himself from association and self-identification with this desire-mind. He has to say I am not this thing that struggles and suffers, grieves and rejoices, loves and hates, hopes and is baffled, is angry and afraid and cheerful and depressed, a thing of vital moods and emotional passions. All these are merely workings and habits of Prakriti in the sensational and emotional mind. The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as with the bodily movements and experiences, the observer or witness. There is again an inner cleavage. There is this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to occur according to the habit of the modes of Nature and there is the observing mind which sees them, studies and understands but is detached from them. It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but to the pure delight of its own silent existence, with a smile at thier unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in the play. Secondly, it becomes aware of itself as master of the sanction who by his withdrawl of sanction can make this play to cease. When the sanction is withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impression from outside to which its fibers are still able to respond; but this habit of reponse dies away and the emotional mind is in time entirely liberated from the passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, 352,#KEYS |
179:One thing is needful. -- To "give style" to one's character-- a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here a large mass of second nature has been added; there a piece of original nature has been removed -- both times through long practice and daily work at it. Here the ugly that could not be removed is concealed; there it has been reinterpreted and made sublime. Much that is vague and resisted shaping has been saved and exploited for distant views; it is meant to beckon toward the far and immeasurable. In the end, when the work is finished, it becomes evident how the constraint of a single taste governed and formed everything large and small. Whether this taste was good or bad is less important than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste!
It will be the strong and domineering natures that enjoy their finest gaiety in such constraint and perfection under a law of their own; the passion of their tremendous will relaxes in the face of all stylized nature, of all conquered and serving nature. Even when they have to build palaces and design gardens they demur at giving nature freedom.
Conversely, it is the weak characters without power over themselves that hate the constraint of style. They feel that if this bitter and evil constraint were imposed upon them they would be demeaned; they become slaves as soon as they serve; they hate to serve. Such spirits -- and they may be of the first rank -- are always out to shape and interpret their environment as free nature: wild, arbitrary, fantastic, disorderly, and surprising. And they are well advised because it is only in this way that they can give pleasure to themselves. For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of what is ugly makes one bad and gloomy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, mod trans. Walter Kaufmann,#KEYS |
| 180:And for the same reason, because that which we are seeking through beauty is in the end that which we are seeking through religion, the Absolute, the Divine. The search for beauty is only in its beginning a satisfaction in the beauty of form, the beauty which appeals to the physical senses and the vital impressions, impulsions, desires. It is only in the middle a satisfaction in the beauty of the ideas seized, the emotions aroused, the perception of perfect process and harmonious combination. Behind them the soul of beauty in us desires the contact, the revelation, the uplifting delight of an absolute beauty in all things which it feels to be present, but which neither the senses and instincts by themselves can give, though they may be its channels, - for it is suprasensuous, - nor the reason and intelligence, though they too are a channel, - for it is suprarational, supra-intellectual, - but to which through all these veils the soul itself seeks to arrive. When it can get the touch of this universal, absolute beauty, this soul of beauty, this sense of its revelation in any slightest or greatest thing, the beauty of a flower, a form, the beauty and power of a character, an action, an event, a human life, an idea, a stroke of the brush or the chisel or a scintillation of the mind, the colours of a sunset or the grandeur of the tempest, it is then that the sense of beauty in us is really, powerfully, entirely satisfied. It is in truth seeking, as in religion, for the Divine, the All-Beautiful in man, in nature, in life, in thought, in art; for God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. When, fulfilled in our growing sense and knowledge of beauty and delight in beauty and our power for beauty, we are able to identify ourselves in soul with this Absolute and Divine in all the forms and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the living image and power of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, 144, #KEYS |
| 181:they are acting all the while in the spirit of rajasic ahaṅkara, persuade themselves that God is working through them and they have no part in the action. This is because they are satisfied with the mere intellectual assent to the idea without waiting for the whole system and life to be full of it. A continual remembrance of God in others and renunciation of individual eagerness (spr.ha) are needed and a careful watching of our inner activities until God by the full light of self-knowledge, jñanadı̄pena bhasvata, dispels all further chance of self-delusion. The danger of tamogun.a is twofold, first, when the Purusha thinks, identifying himself with the tamas in him, "I am weak, sinful, miserable, ignorant, good-for-nothing, inferior to this man and inferior to that man, adhama, what will God do through me?" - as if God were limited by the temporary capacities or incapacities of his instruments and it were not true that he can make the dumb to talk and the lame to cross the hills, mūkaṁ karoti vacalaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim, - and again when the sadhak tastes the relief, the tremendous relief of a negative santi and, feeling himself delivered from all troubles and in possession of peace, turns away from life and action and becomes attached to the peace and ease of inaction. Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. He bids Arjuna work lokasaṅgraharthaya, for keeping the world together, for he does not wish the world to sink back into Prakriti, but insists on your acting as he acts, "These worlds would be overpowered by tamas and sink into Prakriti if I did not do actions." To be attached to inaction is to give up our action not to God but to our tamasic ahaṅkara. The danger of the sattvagun.a is when the sadhak becomes attached to any one-sided conclusion of his reason, to some particular kriya or movement of the sadhana, to the joy of any particular siddhi of the yoga, perhaps the sense of purity or the possession of some particular power or the Ananda of the contact with God or the sense of freedom and hungers after it, becomes attached to that only and would have nothing else. Remember that the yoga is not for yourself; for these things, though they are part of the siddhi, are not the object of the siddhi, for you have decided at the beginning to make no claim upon God but take what he gives you freely and, as for the Ananda, the selfless soul will even forego the joy of God's presence, ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #KEYS |
182:The Mahashakti, the universal Mother, works out whatever is transmitted by her transcendent consciousness from the Supreme and enters into the worlds that she has made; her presence fills and supports them with the divine spirit and the divine all-sustaining force and delight without which they could not exist. That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life. Each of the worlds is nothing but one play of the Mahashakti of that system of worlds or universe, who is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother. Each is something that she has seen in her vision, gathered into her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda.
But there are many planes of her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. All beings there live and move in an ineffable completeness and unalterable oneness, because she carries them safe in her arms for ever. Nearer to us are the worlds of a perfect supramental creation in which the Mother is the supramental Mahashakti, a Power of divine omniscient Will and omnipotent Knowledge always apparent in its unfailing works and spontaneously perfect in every process. There all movements are the steps of the Truth; there all beings are souls and powers and bodies of the divine Light; there all experiences are seas and floods and waves of an intense and absolute Ananda. But here where we dwell are the worlds of the Ignorance, worlds of mind and life and body separated in consciousness from their source, of which this earth is a significant centre and its evolution a crucial process. This too with all its obscurity and struggle and imperfection is upheld by the Universal Mother; this too is impelled and guided to its secret aim by the Mahashakti.
The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in an intermediate plane between the supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth creation which has to be brought down here and this mounting and descending hierarchy of planes of consciousness that like a double ladder lapse into the nescience of Matter and climb back again through the flowering of life and soul and mind into the infinity of the Spirit. Determining all that shall be in this universe and in the terrestrial evolution by what she sees and feels and pours from her, she stands there... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS |
| 183:The Absolute is in itself indefinable by reason, ineffable to the speech; it has to be approached through experience. It can be approached through an absolute negation of existence, as if it were itself a supreme Non-Existence, a mysterious infinite Nihil. It can be approached through an absolute affirmation of all the fundamentals of our own existence, through an absolute of Light and Knowledge, through an absolute of Love or Beauty, through an absolute of Force, through an absolute of peace or silence. It can be approached through an inexpressible absolute of being or of consciousness, or of power of being, or of delight of being, or through a supreme experience in which these things become inexpressibly one; for we can enter into such an ineffable state and, plunged into it as if into a luminous abyss of existence, we can reach a superconscience which may be described as the gate of the Absolute. It is supposed that it is only through a negation of individual and cosmos that we can enter into the Absolute. But in fact the individual need only deny his own small separate ego-existence; he can approach the Absolute through a sublimation of his spiritual individuality taking up the cosmos into himself and transcending it; or he may negate himself altogether, but even so it is still the individual who by self-exceeding enters into the Absolute. He may enter also by a sublimation of his being into a supreme existence or super-existence, by a sublimation of his consciousness into a supreme consciousness or superconscience, by a sublimation of his and all delight of being into a super-delight or supreme ecstasy. He can make the approach through an ascension in which he enters into cosmic consciousness, assumes it into himself and raises himself and it into a state of being in which oneness and multiplicity are in perfect harmony and unison in a supreme status of manifestation where all are in each and each in all and all in the one without any determining individuation - for the dynamic identity and mutuality have become complete; on the path of affirmation it is this status of the manifestation that is nearest to the Absolute. This paradox of an Absolute which can be realised through an absolute negation and through an absolute affirmation, in many ways, can only be accounted for to the reason if it is a supreme Existence which is so far above our notion and experience of existence that it can correspond to our negation of it, to our notion and experience of nonexistence; but also, since all that exists is That, whatever its degree of manifestation, it is itself the supreme of all things and can be approached through supreme affirmations as through supreme negations. The Absolute is the ineffable x overtopping and underlying and immanent and essential in all that we can call existence or non-existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion, #KEYS |
184:The Mother once described the characteristics of the unity-body, of the future supramental body, to a young Ashramite: 'You know, if there is something on that window-sill and if I [in a supramental body] want to take it, I stretch out my hand and it becomes - wow! - long, and I have the thing in my hand without even having to get up from my chair ... Physically, I shall be able to be here and there at the same time. I shall be able to communicate with many people at the same time. To have something in my hand, I'll just have to wish for it. I think about something and I want it and it is already in my hand. With this transformed body I shall be free of the fetters of ignorance, pain, of mortality and unconsciousness. I shall be able to do many things at the same time. The transparent, luminous, strong, light, elastic body won't need any material things to subsist on ... The body can even be lengthened if one wants it to become tall, or shrunk when one wants it to be small, in any circumstances ... There will be all kinds of changes and there will be powers without limit. And it won't be something funny. Of course, I am giving you somewhat childish examples to tease you and to show the difference. 'It will be a true being, perfect in proportion, very, very beautiful and strong, light, luminous or else transparent. It will have a supple and malleable body endowed with extraordinary capacities and able to do everything; a body without age, a creation of the New Consciousness or else a transformed body such as none has ever imagined ... All that is above man will be within its reach. It will be guided by the Truth alone and nothing less. That is what it is and more even than has ever been conceived.'895 This the Mother told in French to Mona Sarkar, who noted it down as faithfully as possible and read it out to her for verification. The supramental body will not only be omnipotent and omniscient, but also omnipresent. And immortal. Not condemned to a never ending monotonous immortality - which, again, is one of our human interpretations of immortality - but for ever existing in an ecstasy of inexhaustible delight in 'the Joy that surpasses all understanding.' Moment after moment, eternity after eternity. For in that state each moment is an eternity and eternity an ever present moment. If gross matter is not capable of being used as a permanent coating of the soul in the present phase of its evolution, then it certainly is not capable of being the covering of the supramental consciousness, to form the body that has, to some extent, been described above. This means that the crux of the process of supramental transformation lies in matter; the supramental world has to become possible in matter, which at present still is gross matter. - Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were supramentalized in their mental and vital, but their enormous problem was the supramentalization of the physical body, consisting of the gross matter of the Earth. As the Mother said: 'It is matter itself that must change so that the Supramental may manifest. A new kind of matter no longer corresponding with Mendeleyev's periodic table of the elements? Is that possible?
~ Georges Van Vrekhem,#KEYS |
185:Evil
Hasten towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts, for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind which delights in evil.
If one does an evil action, he should not persist in it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering is the accumulation of evil.
If one does a good action, he should persist in it and take delight in it. Full of happiness is the accumulation of good.
As long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evildoer may experience contentment. But when it ripens, the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.
As long as his good action has not yet ripened, one who does good may experience unhappiness. But when it ripens, the good man knows happiness.
Do not treat evil lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the fool fills himself little by little with wickedness.
Do not treat good lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the sage fills himself little by little with goodness.
The merchant who is carrying many precious goods and who has but few companions, avoids dangerous roads; and a man who loves his life is wary of poison. Even so should one act regarding evil.
A hand that has no wound can carry poison with impunity; act likewise, for evil cannot touch the righteous man.
If you offend one who is pure, innocent and defenceless, the insult will fall back on you, as if you threw dust against the wind.
Some are reborn here on earth, evil-doers go to the worlds of Niraya,1 the just go to the heavenly worlds, but those who have freed themselves from all desire attain Nirvana.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can find refuge from his evil actions.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can hide from death.
People have the habit of dealing lightly with thoughts that come. And the atmosphere is full of thoughts of all kinds which do not in fact belong to anybody in particular, which move perpetually from one person to another, very freely, much too freely, because there are very few people who can keep their thoughts under control.
When you take up the Buddhist discipline to learn how to control your thoughts, you make very interesting discoveries. You try to observe your thoughts. Instead of letting them pass freely, sometimes even letting them enter your head and establish themselves in a quite inopportune way, you look at them, observe them and you realise with stupefaction that in the space of a few seconds there passes through the head a series of absolutely improbable thoughts that are altogether harmful.
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Conversion of the aim of life from the ego to the Divine: instead of seeking one's own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life.
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What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For those who wish to live according to Truth, there is always something to learn and some progress to make. 2 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS |
186:But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration [83],#KEYS |
187:The supreme Truth aspect which thus manifests itself to us is an eternal and infinite and absolute self-existence, self-awareness, self-delight of being; this bounds all things and secretly supports and pervades all things. This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature,-self, conscious being or spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory,-Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara; for these terms grew from a root of Intuition and, while they have a comprehensive preciseness, are capable of a plastic application which avoids both vagueness in the use and the rigid snare of a too limiting intellectual concept. The Supreme Brahman is that which in Western metaphysics is called the Absolute: but Brahman is at the same time the omnipresent Reality in which all that is relative exists as its forms or its movements; this is an Absolute which takes all relativities in its embrace. [...] Brahman is the Consciousness that knows itself in all that exists; Brahman is the force that sustains the power of God and Titan and Demon, the Force that acts in man and animal and the forms and energies of Nature; Brahman is the Ananda, the secret Bliss of existence which is the ether of our being and without which none could breathe or live. Brahman is the inner Soul in all; it has taken a form in correspondence with each created form which it inhabits. The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; He is Space and all that is in Space; He is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the Transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe. These and similar statements taken together are all-comprehensive: it is possible for the mind to cut and select, to build a closed system and explain away all that does not fit within it; but it is on the complete and many-sided statement that we must take our stand if we have to acquire an integral knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 02: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution, Part I, The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti [336-337],#KEYS |
188:[desire and its divine form:]
Into all our endeavour upward the lower element of desire will at first naturally enter. For what the enlightened will sees as the thing to be done and pursues as the crown to be conquered, what the heart embraces as the one thing delightful, that in us which feels itself limited and opposed and, because it is limited, craves and struggles, will seek with the troubled passion of an egoistic desire. This craving life-force or desire-soul in us has to be accepted at first, but only in order that it may be transformed. Even from the very beginning it has to be taught to renounce all other desires and concentrate itself on the passion for the Divine. This capital point gained, it has to be aught to desire, not for its own separate sake, but for God in the world and for the Divine in ourselves; it has to fix itself upon no personal spiritual gain, though of all possible spiritual gains we are sure, but on the great work to be done in us and others, on the high coming manifestation which is to be the glorious fulfilment of the Divine in the world, on the Truth that has to be sought and lived and enthroned for eveR But last, most difficult for it, more difficult than to seek with the right object, it has to be taught to seek in the right manner; for it must learn to desire, not in its own egoistic way, but in the way of the Divine. It must insist no longer, as the strong separative will always insists, on its own manner of fulfilment, its own dream of possession, its own idea of the right and the desirable; it must yearn to fulfil a larger and greater Will and consent to wait upon a less interested and ignorant guidance. Thus trained, Desire, that great unquiet harasser and troubler of man and cause of every kind of stumbling, will become fit to be transformed into its divine counterpart. For desire and passion too have their divine forms; there is a pure ecstasy of the soul's seeking beyond all craving and grief, there is a Will of Ananda that sits glorified in the possession of the supreme beatitudes.
When once the object of concentration has possessed and is possessed by the three master instruments, the thought, the heart and the will,-a consummation fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law,-the perfection of mind and life and body can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For that work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action,-and that will be when personal desire and egoism are abolished, but not the liberated individual. Even when the little ego has been abolished, the true spiritual Person can still remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves,- all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal Joy which is the goal of the Spirit's terrestrial adventure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration [83] [T1],#KEYS |
189:We have now completed our view of the path of Knowledge and seen to what it leads. First, the end of Yoga of Knowledge is God-possession, it is to possess God and be possessed by him through consciousness, through identification, through reflection of the divine Reality. But not merely in some abstraction away from our present existence, but here also; therefore to possess the Divine in himself, the Divine in the world, the Divine within, the Divine in all things and all beings. It is to possess oneness with God and through that to possess also oneness with the universal, with the cosmos and all existences; therefore to possess the infinite diversity also in the oneness, but on the basis of oneness and not on the basis of division. It is to possess God in his personality and his impersonality; in his purity free from qualities and in his infinite qualities; in time and beyond time; in his action and in his silence; in the finite and in the infinite. It is to possess him not only in pure self, but in all self; not only in self, but in Nature; not only in spirit, but in supermind, mind, life and body; to possess him with the spirit, with the mind, with the vital and the physical consciousness; and it is again for all these to be possessed by him, so that our whole being is one with him, full of him, governed and driven by him. It is, since God is oneness, for our physical consciousness to be one with the soul and the nature of the material universe; for our life, to be one with all life; for our mind, to be one with the universal mind; for our spirit, to be identified with the universal spirit. It is to merge in him in the absolute and find him in all relations. Secondly, it is to put on the divine being and the divine nature. And since God is Sachchidananda, it is to raise our being into the divine being, our consciousness into the divine consciousness, our energy into the divine energy, our delight of existence into the divine delight of being. And it is not only to lift ourselves into this higher consciousness, but to widen into it in all our being, because it is to be found on all the planes of our existence and in all our members, so that our mental, vital, physical existence shall become full of the divine nature. Our intelligent mentality is to become a play of the divine knowledge-will, our mental soul-life a play of the divine love and delight, our vitality a play of the divine life, our physical being a mould of the divine substance. This God-action in us is to be realised by an opening of ourselves to the divine gnosis and divine Ananda and, in its fullness, by an ascent into and a permanent dwelling in the gnosis and the Ananda. For though we live physically on the material plane and in normal outwardgoing life the mind and soul are preoccupied with material existence, this externality of our being is not a binding limitation. We can raise our internal consciousness from plane to plane of the relations of Purusha with prakriti, and even become, instead of the mental being dominated by the physical soul and nature, the gnostic being or the bliss-self and assume the gnostic or the bliss nature. And by this raising of the inner life we can transform our whole outward-going existence; instead of a life dominated by matter we shall then have a life dominated by spirit with all its circumstances moulded and determined by the purity of being, the consciousness infinite even in the finite, the divine energy, the divine joy and bliss of the spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, The Higher and the Lower Knowledge [511] [T1], #KEYS |
190:The recurring beat that moments God in Time.
Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound,
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
The integer of the Spirit's perfect sum
That equates the unequal All to the equal One,
The single sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the Absolute.
There walled apart by its own innerness
In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky.
As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to soar into the Ineffable's reign:
A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world;
Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
It marries the earth to screened eternities.
Amid the many systems of the One
Made by an interpreting creative joy
Alone it points us to our journey back
Out of our long self-loss in Nature's deeps;
Planted on earth it holds in it all realms:
It is a brief compendium of the Vast.
This was the single stair to being's goal.
A summary of the stages of the spirit,
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies
Refashioned in our secret air of self
A subtle pattern of the universe.
It is within, below, without, above.
Acting upon this visible Nature's scheme
It wakens our earth-matter's heavy doze
To think and feel and to react to joy;
It models in us our diviner parts,
Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body's death with immortality's call:
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience
It labours towards a superconscient Light.
If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response:
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;
This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter's house.
The living symbol of these conscious planes,
Its influences and godheads of the unseen,
Its unthought logic of Reality's acts
Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
Have fixed our inner life's slow-scaled degrees.
Its steps are paces of the soul's return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity.
Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall.
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state;
Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness
Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove
The many-patterned ground of all we are.
An idol of self is our mortality.
Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
They consent to share her doom of birth and death;
They kindle partial gleams of the All and drive
Her blind laborious spirit to compose
A meagre image of the mighty Whole.
The calm and luminous Intimacy within
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS |
191:[an Integral conception of the Divine :::
But on that which as yet we know not how shall we concentrate? And yet we cannot know the Divine unless we have achieved this concentration of our being upon him. A concentration which culminates in a living realisation and the constant sense of the presence of the One in ourselves and in all of which we are aware, is what we mean in Yoga by knowledge and the effort after knowledge. It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophical reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable : it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose. Therefore the wise have always been unwilling to limit man's avenues towards God; they would not shut against his entry even the narrowest portal, the lowest and darkest postern, the humblest wicket-gate. Any name, any form, any symbol, any offering has been held to be sufficient if there is the consecration along with it; for the Divine knows himself in the heart of the seeker and accepts the sacrifice.
But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 82-83 [T1],#KEYS |
192:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS |
*** WISDOM TROVE *** |
| 1:To teach is to delight. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 2:Energy is eternal delight. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 3:Energy is an eternal delight. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 4:freedom, first delight of human kind! ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 5:I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove |
| 6:Delight is incomplete until it is expressed. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 7:You change people by delight, by pleasure. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove |
| 8:A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 9:You change people by delight, by pleasure. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove |
| 10:All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 11:When the character's right, looks are a greater delight. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 12:Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 13:The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 14:God made the world for the delight of human beings. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 15:The spirit of delight comes in small ways. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 16:Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 17:There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 18:Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove |
| 19:What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing? ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 20:Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 21:How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 22:Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 23:By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 24:God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove |
| 25:Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove |
| 26:The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 27:Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 28:Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 29:How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove |
| 30:The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 31:Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 32:Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 33:To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove |
| 34:A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 35:The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 36:Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove |
| 37:Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove |
| 38:Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 39:Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove |
| 40:Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 41:It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove |
| 42:The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 43:If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 44:From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove |
| 45:Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 46:Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove |
| 47:The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 48:Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 49: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 50:To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 51:A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 52:God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 53:The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 54:All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 55:Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 56:The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 57:You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove |
| 58:Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." "Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 59:We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 60:Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 61:Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove |
| 62:To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 63:Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 64:The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 65: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 66:There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 67:We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 68:Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 69:I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 70:How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 71:We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove |
| 72:Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 73:I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 74:It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove |
| 75:To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 76:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 77:They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 78:There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove |
| 79:That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 80:A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 81:The extraordinary delight of uncovering the true face is made possible only by the extraordinary suffering of covering the face. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove |
| 82:To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 83:Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 84:Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 85:Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 86:Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove |
| 87:The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove |
| 88:Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove |
| 89:If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 90:Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove |
| 91:We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove |
| 92:Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 93:Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 94:When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 95:Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet Delight,Some are born to Endless Night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 96:If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 97:And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove |
| 98:The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove |
| 99:We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 100:Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 101:Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 102:As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 103:Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 104:HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove |
| 105:the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 106: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 own. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove |
| 107:And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove |
| 108:Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove |
| 109:In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 110:The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 111:The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 112:Everything—a horse, a vine—is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 113:It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 114:The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 115:A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 116:Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 117:I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove |
| 118:The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 119:For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing ... is discovering. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 120:I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 121:Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination& |
| 122: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 in it while we have it. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 123:Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove |
| 124:The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 125:Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove |
| 126:Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 127: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. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 128:The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 129:This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 130:When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 131: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. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 132:Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 133:This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove |
| 134:A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 135:Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, & |
| 136:During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove |
| 137:I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove |
| 138:It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove |
| 139:Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove |
| 140:Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove |
| 141:I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 142:Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 143:Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove |
| 144:The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove |
| 145:Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 146:Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 147:But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove |
| 148: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 149:Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 150:The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 151: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. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 152:When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 153:Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove |
| 154:The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life& |
| 155:Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 156:We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove |
| 157:It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 158:Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 159:We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 160:Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 161:It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock's tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 162:And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 163:Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 164:When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 165:Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 166:The mystics delight in a divine love affair with God, who is their affectionate spouse and constant friend. They fall in love with Love, and in this all loving separation is transcended. Lover and beloved dissolve into each other and only Love remains. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 167:Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 168:Tell all the Truth but tell it slant& |
| 169:Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove |
| 170:And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 171:Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night") ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 172:Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 173:My hope for all of us is that & |
| 174:The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove |
| 175:He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 176:Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 177:We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 178:Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 179:To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 180:One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in heaven to share his delights and blessings with others; and as such is the character of all that are in the heavens it is clear how immeasurable is the delight of heaven. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 181:I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say & |
| 182:The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 183:We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove |
| 184:And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 185:To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove |
| 186:Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 187:Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove |
| 188:Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon! ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove |
| 189:In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 190:Damn everything but the circus! ... damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove |
| 191:You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 192:Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 193:The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 194:Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 195:The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 196:I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove |
| 197:There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 198:No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove |
| 199:I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 200:Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 201:To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 202:Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 203:The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach... Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C. S. Lewis ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 204:Certainly it's not just a visual experience - it's an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove |
| 205:The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows... ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 206:The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 207:Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 208:To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 209:I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 210:What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 211:Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast em, fry and roast em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 212:Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 213:The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 214:The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 215:Then she added in a sort of childish delight: & |
| 216:I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 217:She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough! ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 218:Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 219:There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 220:Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 221:Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 222:There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
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| 224:God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: & |
| 225:A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 226:All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 227:Life is to be enjoyed and endured. That’s one of the great paradoxities the heroic lover must understand. When we enjoy life, it feels good to be alive. When we endure life, it deepens our wisdom and compassion. To ‘endure’ is to become ‘durable’… to become strong. When we endure it strengthens the soul. And life wants us to become strong, so we can withstand the storms as well as delight in the sunshine. So we can love, whatever the weather. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 228:It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight - ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 229:Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all& |
| 230:To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 231:It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet... . As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye... ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove |
| 232:Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove |
| 233:Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells& |
| 234:A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 235:The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 236:A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 237:It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 238:Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 239:God made the world for the delight of human beings& |
| 240:Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 241:The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 242:Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 243:I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 244:There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 245:If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 246:In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 247:Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove |
| 248:How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 249:Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove |
| 250:How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,& |
| 251:Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove |
| 252:Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 253:A Blessing of Solitude May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your own individuality and difference. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good, and eternal happening. May you learn to see yourself with the same delight, pride, and expectation with which God sees you in every moment. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 254:It is now time, leaving every object of sense far behind, to contemplate, by a certain ascent, a beauty of a much higher order; a beauty not visible to the corporeal eye, but alone manifest to the brighter eye of the soul, independent of all corporeal aid. However, since, without some previous perception of beauty it is impossible to express by words the beauties of sense, but we must remain in the state of the blind, so neither can we ever speak of the beauty of offices and sciences, and whatever is allied to these, if deprived of their intimate possession. Thus we shall never be able to tell of virtue's brightness, unless by looking inward we perceive the fair countenance of justice and temperance, and are convinced that neither the evening nor morning star are half so beautiful and bright. But it is requisite to perceive objects of this kind by that eye by which the soul beholds such real beauties. Besides it is necessary that whoever perceives this species of beauty, should be seized with much greater delight, and more vehement admiration, than any corporeal beauty can excite; as now embracing beauty real and substantial. Such affections, I say, ought to be excited about true beauty, as admiration and sweet astonishment; desire also and love and a pleasant trepidation. For all souls, as I may say, are affected in this manner about invisible objects, but those the most who have the strongest propensity to their love; as it likewise happens about corporeal beauty; for all equally perceive beautiful corporeal forms, yet all are not equally excited, but lovers in the greatest degree. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 255:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. For if anyone shall become acquainted with this source of beauty he will then know what I say, and after what manner he is beautiful. Indeed, whatever is desirable is a kind of good, since to this desire tends. But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and so far only tend to good itself; as far as they lay aside the deformed vestments of matter, with which they become connected in their descent. Just as those who penetrate into the holy retreats of sacred mysteries, are first purified and then divest themselves of their garments, until someone by such a process, having dismissed everything foreign from the God, by himself alone, beholds the solitary principle of the universe, sincere, simple and pure, from which all things depend, and to whose transcendent perfections the eyes of all intelligent natures are directed, as the proper cause of being, life and intelligence. With what ardent love, with what strong desire will he who enjoys this transporting vision be inflamed while vehemently affecting to become one with this supreme beauty! For this it is ordained, that he who does not yet perceive him, yet desires him as good, but he who enjoys the vision is enraptured with his beauty, and is equally filled with admiration and delight. Hence, such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved. Such, too, is the condition of those who, on perceiving the forms of gods or daemons, no longer esteem the fairest of corporeal forms. What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M *** |
| 1:We must risk delight. ~ Jack Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 2:delight in good ideas. ~ John Brockman, #NFDB |
| 3:A lonely impulse of delight ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB |
| 4:delight in your deliverance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 5:End of the world delight ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB |
| 6:By turns the nine delight to sing ~ Homer, #NFDB |
| 7:Energy is eternal delight. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 8:My Beloved, in Whom I delight! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 9:I delight in what I fear. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB |
| 10:Energy is an eternal delight. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 11:And delight reigned. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB |
| 12:I saw satan laughing with delight ~ Don McLean, #NFDB |
| 13:Riches, rightly used, breed delight. ~ Plautus, #NFDB |
| 14:Uneven numbers are the gods' delight. ~ Virgil, #NFDB |
| 15:Delight in the little things. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB |
| 16:It’s snowing!’ I said in delight. ~ Robin Stevens, #NFDB |
| 17:Learning is my sole delight. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB |
| 18:She called it my purse of delight. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB |
| 19:The last of Summer is Delight - ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB |
| 20:A lonely impulse of delight ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB |
| 21:My true intent is all for your delight. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB |
| 22:Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 23:Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, ~ Lucretius, #NFDB |
| 24:Not for any one man's delight has Nature made ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 25:God does not delight in suffering. ~ Jefferson Bethke, #NFDB |
| 26:O freedom, first delight of human kind! ~ John Dryden, #NFDB |
| 27:Tell me a story of deep delight. ~ Robert Penn Warren, #NFDB |
| 28:There is no delight the equal of dread ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB |
| 29:There's no delight the equal of dread. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB |
| 30:Beauty and delight are inseparable powers. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 31:I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB |
| 32:Intelligence is nothing without delight. ~ Paul Claudel, #NFDB |
| 33:It's a slightly creepy delight to see you. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 34:What a delight it is to respect people! ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB |
| 35:What studies please, what most delight, ~ Thomas Creech, #NFDB |
| 36:A poet begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 37:Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB |
| 38:Delight is incomplete until it is expressed. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 39:Longing is its own kind of perverse delight. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB |
| 40:Meditate with delight and run with joy. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB |
| 41:And there shall be for thee all soft delight ~ John Keats, #NFDB |
| 42:God created me to delight people with my goals. ~ Romario, #NFDB |
| 43:Go to your banquet then, but use delight ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB |
| 44:Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 45:Do this work until you feel the delight of it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 46:The world’s delight is a brief dream. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB |
| 47:To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 48:A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 49:Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 50:Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 51:How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB |
| 52:O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness! ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 53:The labor we delight in physics pain. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 54:The labour we delight in physics pain ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 55:What sweet delight a quiet life affords. ~ William Drummond, #NFDB |
| 56:Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 57:it made one drunk with delight to look upon it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 58:The exercise of power is a dangerous delight. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 59:There's keen delight in what we have: ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB |
| 60:Energy is eternal delight.” —William Blake ~ Brendon Burchard, #NFDB |
| 61:Every change of place becomes a delight. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 62:Never find delight in another's misfortune. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 63:I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB |
| 64:All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. ~ Horace, #NFDB |
| 65:I felt a strange delight in causing my decay. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB |
| 66:It's a delight to trust somebody so completely. ~ Jeff Goldblum, #NFDB |
| 67:The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 68:When the character's right, looks are a greater delight. ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 69:Death is not a Hunter’s delight. Too final. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB |
| 70:I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB |
| 71:Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 72:Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 73:The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 74:The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB |
| 75:May the world's small things fill her with delight. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB |
| 76:You change people by delight, by pleasure. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB |
| 77:Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 78:My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight. ~ John James Audubon, #NFDB |
| 79:Never find your delight in another's misfortune. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 80:Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 81:…the aching, dark delight of embracing a sin. ~ Forough Farrokhzad, #NFDB |
| 82:Then let yourself love all that you take delight in ~ John Ashbery, #NFDB |
| 83:The world is a peepshow for my chosen eyes delight ~ Suehiro Maruo, #NFDB |
| 84:A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul. ~ Saadi, #NFDB |
| 85:All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me... ~ Marie Curie, #NFDB |
| 86:Delight yourself in the Lord." Psalm 37:4 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 87:For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ~ Sir John Denham, Of Prudence., #NFDB |
| 88:God made the world for the delight of human beings. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB |
| 89:I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB |
| 90:Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 91:The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 92:The spirit of delight comes in small ways. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB |
| 93:But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight. ~ Dawn French, #NFDB |
| 94:There's no delight in owning anything unshared. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 95:Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB |
| 96:The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave. ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB |
| 97:Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion. ~ Albrecht Durer, #NFDB |
| 98:May your season shine with delight and surprise. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB |
| 99:There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 100:The world is a freakshow for my peeping eye's delight. ~ Suehiro Maruo, #NFDB |
| 101:To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight. ~ Jim Broadbent, #NFDB |
| 102:Companies should always want to delight their customers. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB |
| 103:Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 104:Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. ~ ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB |
| 105:Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other: ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB |
| 106:Many children... delight in the small and inconspicuous. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB |
| 107:What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing? ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB |
| 108:Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 109:The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain. ~ Eliza Haywood, #NFDB |
| 110:There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 111:A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 112:Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. ~ John Gay, #NFDB |
| 113:Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 114:As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 115:Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB |
| 116:My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 117:Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB |
| 118:A whooping woman in an evening gown is a woman to delight in. ~ Nick Harkaway, #NFDB |
| 119:Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 120:He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 121:How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 122:My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight ~ Catullus, #NFDB |
| 123:My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 124:Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage! ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB |
| 125:The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 126:26My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 127:Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 128:Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 129:Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. ~ Sark, #NFDB |
| 130:The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 131:The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight. ~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal, #NFDB |
| 132:The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness! ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, #NFDB |
| 133:2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 134:Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
135:Everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB |
| 136:I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB |
| 137:lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here ~ Holly Black, #NFDB |
| 138:Oh, please,” I tell him. “I am a motherfucking delight.” Another ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB |
| 139:Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
140:And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say? ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB |
| 141:By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 142:Holiness and delight are as allied—as root and flower; ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 143:It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB |
144:SOME ARE BORN TO SWEET DELIGHT
SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 145:That certainly is good news, which we will savor with great delight, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 146:The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 147:The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB |
| 148:Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 149:Can you understand that one might kill oneself from delight? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 150:Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB |
| 151:delight or enchantment (a shining kind of contentment) spiritual ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB |
| 152:God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB |
| 153:If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB |
| 154:Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability? ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB |
| 155:Literature is a means to delight the mind and embolden the spirit. ~ Ian Mortimer, #NFDB |
| 156:Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB |
| 157:"The Buddhist notion of diligence is to delight in positive deeds." ~ Ringu Tulku, #NFDB |
| 158:The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB |
| 159:Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB |
| 160:Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 161:And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 162:If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire. ~ T B Joshua, #NFDB |
| 163:Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 164:Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work. ~ Maxim Gorky, #NFDB |
| 165:The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 166:Therefore all in the world delight to exalt him and do not weary of him. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 167:Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB |
| 168:I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB |
| 169:Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 170:The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB |
| 171:The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 172:When you express your true delight, you make the world a better place. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB |
| 173:A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
174:Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
~ Socrates,#NFDB |
| 175:Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now. ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 176:Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. ~ Henry Wotton, #NFDB |
| 177:For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB |
| 178:Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. ~ Deborah Needleman, #NFDB |
| 179:The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 180:The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB |
| 181:There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace ~ Bernard Hinault, #NFDB |
| 182:Truly, he felt like “a cat biting on a urine bubble—all empty delight! ~ Anthony C Yu, #NFDB |
| 183:Young girls giggle with nervous delight at the erections they inspire. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 184:10 For wisdom will enter your mind, and knowledge will delight your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 185:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 186:How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB |
| 187:It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB |
| 188:There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it's someone else's. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB |
| 189:We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 190:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 191:Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB |
| 192:Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB |
193:IT was for delight
He sought existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#NFDB |
| 194:I’ve seen things that I don’t understand but that nonetheless delight me. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 195:On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 196:There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB |
| 197:You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 198:16When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 199:In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ~ Homer, #NFDB |
| 200:In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 201:In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight— ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB |
| 202:It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them. ~ Philip Kotler, #NFDB |
| 203:Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB |
| 204:My fingers are tickled to delight by the soft ripple of a baby's laugh... ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB |
| 205:The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB |
| 206:The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 207:Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world. ~ Franz Schubert, #NFDB |
| 208:To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 209:When you delight in the Lord He becomes the desire of your heart ~ Jennifer Kennedy Dean, #NFDB |
| 210:who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 211:Who is more godless than I, that I may delight in his instruction? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 212:Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 213:To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. ~ Ilka Chase, #NFDB |
| 214:All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
215:Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine, ~ John Keats,#NFDB |
| 216:Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB |
| 217:I discovered to my relief and delight that it "was" a gun in his pocket. ~ Justin Richards, #NFDB |
| 218:I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. ~ Carl Nielsen, #NFDB |
| 219:Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB |
| 220:Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB |
| 221:That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 222:To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB |
| 223:Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 224:Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ~ Richard de Bury, #NFDB |
| 225:June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 226:And I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB |
| 227:Fireheart!” Ravenpaw meowed in delight. “Fireheart,” Graystripe corrected him. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB |
| 228:fool does not delight in understanding, but only wants to show off his opinions. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 229:Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB |
| 230:Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 231:the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB |
| 232:There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. ~ Mencius, #NFDB |
| 233:To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 234:And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB |
| 235:But o the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in p abundant peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 236:Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. —PSALM 119:35 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 237:For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. ~ Margaret Cavendish, #NFDB |
| 238:Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics. ~ Mary Lou Retton, #NFDB |
| 239:True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. ~ Emanuel Geibel, #NFDB |
| 240:Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB |
| 241:Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 242:What is love but delight in another human being? He delights me daily. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB |
| 243:What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. ~ Edmund Spenser, #NFDB |
| 244:You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB |
| 245:I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 246:Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 247:The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God. ~ Ernest Holmes, #NFDB |
| 248:To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 249:92If Your law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my affliction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 250:and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight. ~ Mo Yan, #NFDB |
| 251:As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 252:A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 253:How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 254:Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 255:So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more. ~ John Owen, #NFDB |
| 256:The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. ~ Horace, #NFDB |
| 257:True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB |
| 258:When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB |
| 259:Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB |
| 260:Find exquisite delight* in Jehovah, And he will grant you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 261:Take delight in questioning; hearken in silence to the word of the saints. ~ Imitation of Christ, #NFDB |
| 262:True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB |
| 263:Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 264:with ever new delight The nectar-sea of deeds by Ráma done. Hail, arch-ascetic, pious, ~ Valmiki, #NFDB |
| 265:4 b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 266:A ball, at last!” Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB |
| 267:Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB |
| 268:It gives him delight in a way that houses no wanting, and this pleases me. ~ Carmen Maria Machado, #NFDB |
| 269:Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 270:The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 271:The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB |
| 272:We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB |
| 273:19In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB |
| 274:Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 275:Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal. ~ Euripides, #NFDB |
| 276:In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. ~ Lewis H Lapham, #NFDB |
| 277:It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB |
| 278:Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
| 279:The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 280:If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 281:Love is the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith, #NFDB |
| 282:Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus. ~ David Platt, #NFDB |
| 283:SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 284:"When the mind understands its true nature, it becomes an unceasing flow of delight." ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB |
| 285:Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 286:Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings. ~ Amy E Reichert, #NFDB |
| 287:Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB |
| 288:From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB |
| 289:Let Thy unexampled love constrain me into holy obedience, and render my duty my delight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 290:Material Nature is not ethical. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 291:prince of those Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight ~ Valmiki, #NFDB |
| 292:Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. Then ~ Bailey Cattrell, #NFDB |
| 293:Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB |
| 294:The sky was molten lava of pinks, oranges, and blues, a dance of delight to the eye. ~ Scarlett Dawn, #NFDB |
| 295:The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB |
| 296:Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 297:True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB |
| 298:What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. ~ Vincent McNabb, #NFDB |
| 299:A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 300:desire is the source of all sorrows, and desirelessness leads to the most intense delight. ~ Vanamali, #NFDB |
| 301:Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. ~ Max Frisch, #NFDB |
| 302:I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. ~ Brian Swimme, #NFDB |
| 303:I say that it’s the joy that others take in me, It’s this that is the cause of my delight. ~ ntideva, #NFDB |
| 304:[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB |
| 305:One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 306:O, why should nature build so foul a den, Unless the gods delight in tragedies? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 307:Sikhs in the raiding party ‘shouted with delight’ when Hodson murdered the princes. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 308:Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. ~ Roger Scruton, #NFDB |
| 309:The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 310:Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly. ~ John Owen, #NFDB |
| 311:Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB |
| 312:Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 313:All absoluteness is pure delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 314:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. —PSALM 37:4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 315:In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB |
| 316:It is not time that kills delight, but familiarity, neutralization, and lack of purpose. ~ David Deida, #NFDB |
| 317:It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around. ~ Gerry Adams, #NFDB |
| 318:She had to work to find her outrage again. When she did, it was whimpering in delight. ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB |
| 319:Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB |
| 320:The man called Kilimanjaro West watched with wonder and delight and everything was new. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB |
| 321:There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB |
322:This is a great time to shut up and kiss me."
To her delight, Blake obliged. ~ MaryJanice Davidson,#NFDB |
| 323:And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB |
| 324:Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight? ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 325:Delight, God’s sweetest sign and Beauty’s twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB |
| 326:delight on his features—and, to my utmost surprise, saw a smidge of envy there as well. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB |
| 327:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 328:It is not presumptuous to ask, 'What is it that you see in me that brings you delight? ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB |
| 329:I was marvelling, again, how easy it is, living deprived, to forget love, joy, delight. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB |
| 330:Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 331:Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB |
| 332:The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB |
| 333:The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB |
| 334:But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB |
| 335:In those whom God loves, have delight; on those whom He pretends not to love, take pity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 336:It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories. ~ Thiruvalluvar, #NFDB |
| 337:Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. ~ Novalis, #NFDB |
| 338:PSA37.4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 339:We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB |
| 340:Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 341:God wants His Word to be a delight to us, so much so that we meditate on it day and night. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB |
| 342:If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
| 343:Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 344:Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic. ~ Alexander Theroux, #NFDB |
| 345:The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. ~ Rene Descartes, #NFDB |
| 346:Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. ~ Erik Naggum, #NFDB |
347:What is this world's delight,
Lightening that mocks the night,
Brief as even as bright ~ John Keats,#NFDB |
| 348:Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB |
| 349:Delighting in God’s Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB |
| 350:Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord. ~ Lady Jane Grey, #NFDB |
351:Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends ~ Stephen Spender,#NFDB |
| 352:I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse. ~ Thomas Browne, #NFDB |
| 353:Mortal delight has its mortal danger. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Guardians of the Light, #NFDB |
| 354:Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB |
| 355:By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quotation and Originality, #NFDB |
| 356:Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health... ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 357:Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. ~ Hafez, #NFDB |
| 358:Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high. ~ David Rodigan, #NFDB |
| 359:My contest is only with myself, to do it right with power and force, delight and gamble. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB |
| 360:Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 361:Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 362:...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 363: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, #NFDB |
| 364:I never hoped to have both my kits close to me,” he mewed, his amber eyes shining with delight. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB |
| 365:Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 366:To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 367:Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. ~ Stephen R Lawhead, #NFDB |
| 368:A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB |
| 369:A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB |
| 370:Delight in yourself knowing that God made you just the way He wanted you to be. Own it. ~ Candace Cameron Bure, #NFDB |
| 371:Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB |
| 372:Grimspace is a bitch mistress who carries unearthly delight in one hand and a crop in the other. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB |
| 373:Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight? ~ Maira Kalman, #NFDB |
| 374:Soldiers were not paragons; they were scarred, vicious men who took delight in destruction. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB |
| 375:Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. ~ Alice B Toklas, #NFDB |
| 376:That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott, #NFDB |
| 377:The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB |
| 378:And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB |
| 379:From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born... ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, #NFDB |
| 380:In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 381:Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB |
| 382:To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 383:We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB |
| 384:You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and feet, of your words and thoughts. ~ Buddhist proverb, #NFDB |
| 385:Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. ~ John Friend, #NFDB |
| 386:But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 387:God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB |
| 388:I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will? ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB |
| 389:If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB |
| 390:if you were this fish, would you prefer me to be eating you with sadness or with delight? ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB |
| 391:In fact, she was happy for Iko, who took more delight in her new body than most humans ever did. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB |
| 392:Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 393:I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me - Addison Goodheart pg 74 ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 394:Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB |
| 395:Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends. ~ Robert E Sherwood, #NFDB |
| 396:Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone. ~ Paul Pearsall, #NFDB |
| 397:So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. ~ Philip Johnson, #NFDB |
| 398:Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 399:The echo of one of God's deepest truths: delight can emerge from and exist along with our scars. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB |
| 400:Why do you take delight in leaping to such a wild conjecture from so fragile a springboard? ~ Walter M Miller Jr, #NFDB |
| 401:Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB |
| 402:The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 403:What a delight to have such a handsome couple before me, Miss Swan, Mr. McNeal. You must both ~ Becky Lee Weyrich, #NFDB |
| 404:"You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and feet, of your words and thoughts." ~ Buddhist proverb, #NFDB |
| 405:All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB |
| 406:And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent? ~ Julien Gracq, #NFDB |
| 407:Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~ Rose Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 408:Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 409:That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 410:The adventure was too high, its circumstance too solemn, for any emotion save a severe delight. pg. 31 ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 411:We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB |
| 412:God does not delight in having to always explain what his will is; he enjoys it when we understand ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB |
| 413:His cock was hard against Murdo’s thigh, a physical expression of his delight in his lover. Murdo ~ Joanna Chambers, #NFDB |
| 414:Negators are everywhere, and they seem to delight in sabotaging the positive progress of others. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 415:So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB |
| 416:The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 417:When my astonishment had worn off, and then my awe, and then my delight, I looked over at the Chief. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB |
| 418:20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 419:Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB |
| 420:I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. ~ Stanley Hauerwas, #NFDB |
| 421:[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB |
| 422:Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB |
| 423:Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB |
| 424:If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it: happiness is the outcome of good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 425:Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB |
| 426:Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone. ~ Peter Heller, #NFDB |
| 427:The asacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 428:I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB |
| 429:If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. ~ Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke, #NFDB |
| 430:If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
| 431:I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB |
| 432:It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB |
| 433:No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 434:The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 435:There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 436:To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB |
| 437:Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge. ~ Tracy Rees, #NFDB |
| 438:Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 439:As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~ Alcibiades, #NFDB |
| 440:By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB |
441:Each finite is that deep Infinity
Enshrining His veiled soul of pure delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Form,#NFDB |
| 442:From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB |
| 443:his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB |
| 444:I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep. ~ Barbara Cohen, #NFDB |
| 445:Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. ~ Raoul Vaneigem, #NFDB |
| 446:The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB |
| 447:The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. ~ Henry Adams, #NFDB |
| 448:There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ Gerald Durrell, #NFDB |
| 449:To the delight of the young and young at heart, life is an open invitation of discovery.” — Tina Donovan ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB |
| 450:War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB |
| 451:We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 452:Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. ~ Robert Dessaix, #NFDB |
| 453:Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 454:Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under His shadow with great delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 455:she’d discovered three with their programs intact; one of them, to her delight, had been a flight simulator. ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB |
| 456:“The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.” ~ C.S. Lewis, #NFDB |
| 457:Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB |
| 458:Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB |
| 459:Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 460: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, #NFDB |
| 461:Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most. ~ Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, #NFDB |
| 462:Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB |
| 463:river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor; ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB |
| 464:the soul of the righteous man is nothing but a paradise, in which, as God tells us, He takes His delight. ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB |
| 465:To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 466:He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight. ~ Bentley Little, #NFDB |
| 467:He will pray to God, and God will delight in him. That man will behold His face with a shout of joy. Job 33:26 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 468:I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 469:"It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories." ~ Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 394., #NFDB |
| 470:Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Love and the Triple Path, #NFDB |
| 471:Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 472:Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 473:The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB |
| 474:To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. ~ J B Priestley, #NFDB |
| 475:A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB |
476:Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear
ourselves! Until then we have not lived. ~ Willa Cather,#NFDB |
| 477:Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
478:All forms are Thy dream-dialect of delight,
O Absolute, O vivid Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Divine Sight,#NFDB |
479:Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour'
'Well, it's bloody close...'
'Well, they often are.... ~ Alan Hollinghurst,#NFDB |
| 480:Even Stalin’s absolute power did not delight him absolutely. He exulted in it, yet it roused his self-pity. ~ Stephen Kotkin, #NFDB |
| 481:it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control. ~ Barry Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 482:Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 483:Schopenhauer had said it years ago: “Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 484:She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 485:Then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you ride over the heights of the land. Isaiah 58:14 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 486:The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB |
| 487:This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 488:delight, Akers replied, “How would you like to help us?” Within a few weeks Jobs showed up at IBM’s Armonk, ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB |
| 489:Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 490:If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive? ~ Jonathan Goldstein, #NFDB |
| 491:My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB |
| 492:The pieces I chose were based on one thing only — a gasp of delight. Isn’t that the only way to curate a life? ~ Maira Kalman, #NFDB |
| 493:The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 494:There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 495:was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 496:We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 497:When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB |
| 498:who care. They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
| 499:Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. Jeremiah 15:16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 500: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, #NFDB |
| 501:By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB |
| 502:Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB |
| 503:Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 504:Jerrykins, or Pickled Gherkins. Lord Peter was not one of those born uncles who delight old nurses by their ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB |
| 505:Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB |
| 506:She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 507:She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 508:She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, “Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 509:Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 510:The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 511:...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB |
| 512:The self of things is an infinite indivisible existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Solution, #NFDB |
| 513: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, #NFDB |
| 514:All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB |
| 515:God is both infinitely powerful and infinitely just. Why not, then, delight in the death throes of a sinful world? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB |
| 516:Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before. ~ Pamela Aidan, #NFDB |
| 517:Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 518:The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 519:There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 520:The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB |
| 521:The trouble with Ascendants is that they try to rig every game. Of course, we delight in . . . uncertainty.” A ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB |
| 522:This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him ~ Charles Hodge, #NFDB |
| 523:To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB |
| 524:We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 525:Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. ~ Richard de Bury, #NFDB |
| 526:Do you know what we Turks think is the best Turkish delight? The Turkish woman. She is the best Turkish delight. ~ Carol Vorvain, #NFDB |
| 527:He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB |
528:I should have known what I was getting into with you.”
“Oh please,” I tell him. “I am a motherfucking delight. ~ Karina Halle,#NFDB |
| 529:Killing ain’t no good thing, son, unless it’s to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it. ~ Joe R Lansdale, #NFDB |
| 530:Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB |
| 531:My heart's just as confused as ever, but my pussy's humming with delight, wet and blooming open for him to take me ~ Nicole Snow, #NFDB |
| 532:[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 533:The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Solution, #NFDB |
| 534:You have all these wonders, but you barely notice them. Everything is a delight—don’t you know that?” Sinclair ~ Jennifer Ashley, #NFDB |
| 535:A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB |
| 536:A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
537:Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB |
| 538:Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB |
| 539:I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
| 540:the delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 541:To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB |
| 542:Two platters of cashew chicken double delight, egg rolls, lumpia dogs, dessert, coffee”—she paused—“and this. ~ William Bernhardt, #NFDB |
| 543:You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. ~ Sergei Parajanov, #NFDB |
| 544:He was working himself up into a fervor of delight while I was shrinking into a rage and thinking, How could you ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB |
| 545:How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 546:I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB |
547:The calm delight that weds one soul to all,
The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB |
| 548:To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB |
| 549:We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB |
| 550:Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 551:Every atom has become pregnant of the glow of His face,every atom of that delight gives birth to a hundred atoms. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB |
| 552:I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB |
| 553:It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. ~ Madame Roland, #NFDB |
| 554:Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? ~ Holly Black, #NFDB |
| 555:She had put on a white linen dress and let her hair down. I told her she was beautiful and she laughed with delight. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 556:There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 557:Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing. ~ Richard Rolle, #NFDB |
| 558:to know how to meditate on and delight in the Bible is the secret to a relationship with God and to life itself. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 559:We will never know Sabbath delight unless God delivers us from drowning in the noise and grime of our soiled days. ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB |
| 560:But the meek (in the end) shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace” (Ps. 37:11). ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 561:Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate—and who can live off their death. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 562:I knew he was gay. When we were fifteen, though, he was so deep in the closet I’m sure he could taste Turkish delight. ~ Paul Cleave, #NFDB |
| 563:I suspect that the god many people worship is psycho. Because their god takes delight in the fact that his kids suffer. ~ Bo S nchez, #NFDB |
| 564:It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! ~ Michael Beckwith, #NFDB |
| 565:Moral evil is in reality a form of mental disease or ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 566:Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB |
| 567:Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 568:God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Suprarational Beauty, #NFDB |
| 569:Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB |
| 570:The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB |
| 571:To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 572:What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 573:Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 574:Earth’s pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB |
| 575:Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . ~ Anthony Bourdain, #NFDB |
576:How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 577:I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools. ~ Claude McKay, #NFDB |
| 578:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 579:since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 580:So to know how to meditate on and delight in the Bible is the secret to a relationship with God and to life itself. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 581:The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 582:The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB |
| 583:They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 584:454. In those whom God loves, have delight; on those whom He pretends not to love, take pity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, #NFDB |
| 585:I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, #NFDB |
| 586:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 587:My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. ~ Franz Schubert, #NFDB |
| 588:That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB |
| 589:These violent delight have violent ends. And their triumph die like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 590:Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite, The good Válmíki, ~ Valmiki, #NFDB |
| 591:As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. ~ Margaret Cavendish, #NFDB |
| 592:Each form and way of being has its own appropriate way of the delight of being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Man and the Evolution, #NFDB |
| 593:His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB |
| 594:I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB |
| 595:Pain affects us more intensely because it is abnormal to our being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 596:Self-blame and self-condemnation, are the beginning of true ethics. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 597:She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream? ~ Poppet, #NFDB |
| 598:She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 599:Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 600:There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 601:But not one tear did I shed for their delight. I was her brave warrior, brave as the warriors who marched through my dreams. ~ Anne Berry, #NFDB |
| 602:I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, "It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 603:I delight in M’Cheyne’s remark, “It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 604:One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB |
| 605:Piety without joy, faith without cheer, duty without pleasure, prayer without delight—these do not please the Lord God. ~ Taylor Caldwell, #NFDB |
| 606:All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 607:A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 608:My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers. ~ Mark Leyner, #NFDB |
609:Mystic daughter of Delight,
Life, thou ecstasy,
Let the radius of thy flight
Be eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Life,#NFDB |
| 610:That which we call ourselves is only a trembling ray on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Solution, #NFDB |
| 611:The world has three layers, infra-ethical, ethical and supra-ethical. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 612:To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 613:Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it. ~ Meister Eckhart, #NFDB |
| 614:Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. ~ Paul Goldberger, #NFDB |
| 615:broke out into a loud crow of delight. "We are certainly in luck," said he. "We ought to have very little trouble now. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB |
| 616:Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB |
| 617:Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 618:In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB |
| 619:Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 620:Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 621:Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB |
622:Scientist!' I accuse.
'Poet!' she retorts.
We both smile, delighted and not trying to hide our delight from each other. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB |
| 623:The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. ~ John Muir, #NFDB |
| 624:The God who turned water into wine can take our smallest efforts and weave them into a glorious tapestry for His delight. ~ Sarah Mackenzie, #NFDB |
| 625:Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. ~ Thomas Traherne, #NFDB |
| 626:You are a fucking delight, princess. It’s like you know the dirty jokes in my head I’m too scared to make in front of you. ~ Melanie Harlow, #NFDB |
| 627:Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. ~ George Henry Lewes, #NFDB |
| 628:Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB |
| 629:Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB |
| 630:Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 631:Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB |
| 632:books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB |
| 633:Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure. ~ Steven Levy, #NFDB |
| 634:I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB |
| 635:Let us show to the people of the world, who think our religion to be slavery, that it is to us a delight and a joy! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 636:Life loves to know itself, out to its furthest limits; to embrace complexity is its delight. Our difference is our beauty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 637:Play is also part of developing trust. Play opens the heart and gives delight and focus, like an abacus did when we were young. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB |
638:Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow. ~ Charlotte Bront,#NFDB |
| 639:You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 640:Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 641:God wants everyone to be saved. He takes no delight in the destruction of any soul, however wicked (Ezek. 18:32; 33:11). From ~ Gregory A Boyd, #NFDB |
642:Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.
"It's green!" Nico said with delight. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB |
| 643:People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB |
| 644:take such delight in those chunky highlights. They are the visual manifestation of a request to speak with a manager at Applebee’s. ~ R S Grey, #NFDB |
| 645:The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight. ~ Keith Donohue, #NFDB |
| 646:The supreme gift is the gift of Truth, the supreme savour is the savour of Truth, the supreme delight is the delight of Truth. ~ Dammapada 354, #NFDB |
| 647:And Maud's face brightened: for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB |
| 648:Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB |
| 649:goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite—delight ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB |
| 650:Pain and suffering are a perverse and contrary term of the delight of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine and the Undivine, #NFDB |
| 651:Remember, all passions start from love or hate. But beware - you never know whether they will end with delight or sorrow. ~ Jessica Shirvington, #NFDB |
652:So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. ~ Peter Ackroyd,#NFDB |
| 653:You look right out into the high place and see the great dance with your own eyes. You live always in that terror and that delight. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 654:93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 655:Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 656:I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB |
| 657:If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB |
| 658:Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB |
| 659:Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB |
| 660:Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB |
| 661:The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB |
| 662:The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 663:Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB |
664:Delightful are forests
Where the public does not delight.
There the passion-free delight,
Not seeking sensual pleasure. ~ Gautama Buddha,#NFDB |
| 665:He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 666:Marry me,” she whispered. “I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB |
| 667:Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB |
| 668:Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB |
| 669:She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. ~ Christopher Isherwood, #NFDB |
| 670:The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 671:Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 672:Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. ~ Stephanie Mills, #NFDB |
| 673:Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . and others. ~ Anthony Bourdain, #NFDB |
| 674:He is eight or nine years old now—a good age, my favorite age, old enough to know the world yet young enough to still delight in it. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB |
| 675:I’m just taking delight in your discomfort. Because that’s what a true friend does, I thought sourly. Yes, actually, they do. ~ Terry Mancour, #NFDB |
| 676:Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB |
| 677:Delight of the heart in God is the whole constituent and essence of true Bhakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Supreme Word of the Gita, #NFDB |
| 678:If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections. ~ Francis Atterbury, #NFDB |
| 679:Study everything that makes God wonderful and mimic to your heart’s delight, as the joyful expression of your reciprocal love for him. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB |
| 680:That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB |
| 681:Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB |
| 682:We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB |
| 683:Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises. ~ Marlo Thomas, #NFDB |
| 684:As the years go by, taking genuine delight in something becomes possible only when you can share that delight with somebody else. ~ Mikhail Shishkin, #NFDB |
| 685:First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB |
| 686:Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 687:The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 688:The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 689:Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love. ~ Julian of Norwich, #NFDB |
| 690:Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. ~ Paul Engle, #NFDB |
| 691:All men burn with foolish jealousy, but women are fools to take delight in it. This world is full of fools no matter where you look. ~ Isuna Hasekura, #NFDB |
| 692:And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. ~ Norman McLaren, #NFDB |
| 693:Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB |
| 694:Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 695:If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 696:It really doesn’t pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it’s unlikely they will delight you now. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB |
| 697:Our truest nature is to help others, and to protect and love them. We care about others, and delight in seeing others happy and safe. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB |
| 698:Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB |
| 699:The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!” ~ E Stanley Jones, #NFDB |
| 700:The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB |
| 701:We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 702:(“We must risk delight,” he wrote. “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”) ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 703:Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 704:I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home. ~ Jan Eliasson, #NFDB |
| 705:I will meditate on Your precepts and think about Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:15–16 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 706:Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB |
| 707:Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB |
| 708: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. ~ Kahlil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 709: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. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 710:At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB |
| 711:Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners. ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB |
| 712:It really doesn’t pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it’s unlikely they will delight you now. I ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB |
| 713:Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko, #NFDB |
| 714:Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB |
| 715:The ascent of Life is in its nature the ascent of the divine Delight in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Double Soul in Man, #NFDB |
| 716:The sum of the pleasure of existence far exceeds the sum of the pain of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 717:... to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB |
| 718:Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. ~ John Hanning Speke, #NFDB |
| 719:Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB |
| 720:Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 721:Each time he thought about it Gamache trembled with delight. The very idea of his child having a child struck him as nearly unbelievable. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB |
| 722:Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB |
| 723:Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 724:No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. ~ Damon Galgut, #NFDB |
725:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB |
| 726:When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB |
| 727:When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB |
| 728:As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
| 729:He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. ~ Albrecht Durer, #NFDB |
| 730:JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb. ~ Lance Ulanoff, #NFDB |
| 731:Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB |
| 732:Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. ~ John William Strutt, #NFDB |
| 733:Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig. ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB |
| 734:Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night.” —Byron RufusNewton ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB |
| 735:When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB |
| 736:When you make a plan, the universe chuckles and rubs its hands with delight, because it has another golden opportunity to screw with you. ~ Craig Alanson, #NFDB |
737:Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him and He will do this. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB |
| 738:Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 739:Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity for every fault ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB |
| 740:However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. ~ Maxim Gorky, #NFDB |
| 741:I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will. ~ Elias Hicks, #NFDB |
| 742:The gospel turns that drudgery into delight. It changes us from being slaves who have to obey God to sons and daughters who want to obey God. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB |
| 743:The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett, #NFDB |
| 744:Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 745:We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB |
| 746:You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' ~ Michael Gove, #NFDB |
| 747:Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 748:Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight. ~ Fiona Davis, #NFDB |
| 749:I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock. ~ Patricia McConnell, #NFDB |
| 750:Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. ~ Alexander von Humboldt, #NFDB |
| 751:I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB |
| 752:One who makes merit rejoices in this life, Rejoices in the next, Rejoices in both worlds. Seeing one’s own pure acts brings joy and delight. ~ Gil Fronsdal, #NFDB |
| 753:She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB |
| 754:Some vices delight them as being proofs of their prosperity; it seems the part of a man who is very lowly and despicable to know what he is doing. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 755:The God-lover is the universal lover and he embraces the All-blissful and All-beautiful. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 756:Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 757:The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 758:Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes. ~ Sherwood Anderson, #NFDB |
| 759:Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 760:Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB |
| 761:Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 762:He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 763:I delight in the fact that God is an artist, and the handiwork and the fingers of God are upon everything he does. No artist can escape himself. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
| 764:If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 765:Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB |
| 766:O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men. ~ John Masefield, #NFDB |
| 767:The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read! ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB |
| 768:Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 769:For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 770:... I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God... ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB |
| 771:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 772:The counselor wriggled with delight. Her name was Annie and she was a bubbly ball of spiritually advanced energy and positive new age vibes. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB |
| 773:The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight. ~ Jack London, #NFDB |
| 774:The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB |
| 775:We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB |
776:When youth has quenched its soft and magic light,
Delightful things remain but dead is their delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Songs to Myrtilla,#NFDB |
| 777:22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 778:...and in his button-hole he stuck a narcissus, hoping it would attract Mary's notice, so that he might have the delight of giving it her. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB |
| 779:Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. ~ John Locke, #NFDB |
780:Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior. ~ John Piper,#NFDB |
| 781:Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 782:Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 783:That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB |
| 784:You did not hide Your face from shame and spitting, O Lord Jesus, and therefore I will find my dearest delight in praising You. Your ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 785:Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB |
| 786:Equality is not fulfilled till it takes its positive form of love and delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, #NFDB |
| 787:...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB |
| 788:It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB |
| 789:It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB |
790:O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
Immortal, whence has come thy swift delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, O Life, thy Breath is but a Cry,#NFDB |
| 791:Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 792:The fear which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure. ~ Sean Stewart, #NFDB |
| 793:"The gift of Dharma excels all gifts.The taste of Dharma excels all tastes.The delight in Dharma excels all delights." ~ Teachings of the Buddha, Dhammapda 354, #NFDB |
| 794:The 'red-tinged flower' is far from fair, Nor do my eyes delight to see, But yon red plum which blossoms there, Is full of loveliness to me. ~ Murasaki Shikibu, #NFDB |
| 795:To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 796:Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! ~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, #NFDB |
| 797:Whether I be in the temple or in the balcony, in the camp or the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me. ~ Kabir, #NFDB |
| 798:Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB |
| 799:Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch, #NFDB |
| 800:From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 801:God gives us of the good things of this life, not only for necessity, but for delight, that we may not only serve him, but serve him cheerfully. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB |
| 802:I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. ~ Steven Strogatz, #NFDB |
| 803:Juni only laughs with mad delight at the threat, then waves mockingly. “Run, run as fast as you can, but I’ll catch you, little ginger-haired man. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB |
804:Or there repose and action are the same
In the deep breast of God’s supreme delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB |
805:Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals. ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky,#NFDB |
| 806:The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB |
| 807:The object of existence is not the practice of virtue for its own sake but ānanda, delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #NFDB |
| 808:The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB |
| 809:20Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 810: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 its sufferings. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 811:Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 812:Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB |
| 813:Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 814: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. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB |
| 815:Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 816:Joules cackled with delight. "And I've still got time to moon her. You think me arse'll show up on her infrared?" The streetwise bruiser was back. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB |
| 817:Look to the Bible for the answer. Ancient Jewish wisdom says, “Delight in serving other people.” This is the best career advice you will ever get. ~ Daniel Lapin, #NFDB |
| 818: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. ~ Gertrude Jekyll, #NFDB |
| 819:To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 820:Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB |
| 821:Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don’t obey God to get God himself—in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him. So ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 822:Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heart-felt delight, diffused over his face, became him. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 823:He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 824:If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own. ~ Washington Allston, #NFDB |
| 825:The restaurant sits on a rock above the river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor. ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB |
| 826:There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina. ~ Edward Lear, #NFDB |
| 827:The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~ Samuel McChord Crothers, #NFDB |
| 828:Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 829:3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. 4 Take delight in the LORD , and he will give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 830:A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 831:God did not need to create you, but he chose to create you for his own enjoyment. You exist for his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB |
| 832:God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight. ~ James Hervey, #NFDB |
| 833:HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB |
| 834: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 with men. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 835:Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss. ~ John Cage, #NFDB |
| 836:Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. ~ Joan Erikson, #NFDB |
| 837:Catechesis is the church’s ministry of grounding and growing God’s people in the Gospel and its implications for doctrine, devotion, duty, and delight. ~ J I Packer, #NFDB |
| 838:I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. ~ Denise Duhamel, #NFDB |
| 839:I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight. ~ Rob Brydon, #NFDB |
| 840:Trust in the LORD and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. 4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 841:Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 842:Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she was damned. ~ Anya Seton, #NFDB |
| 843:In the midst of his great difficulties, Job’s source of delight was seeing God in the next life. He knew that “in the end” heaven is a wonderful place. ~ O S Hawkins, #NFDB |
| 844:Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 845:By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 846:God always has been, and always will be, God enough. The battle is over, whether or not I believe it, and whether or not I delight in God’s enough-ness. ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB |
| 847:God meets us in many ways of his being and in all tempts us to him even while he seems to elude us. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 848:he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 849:If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. ~ Amelie Nothomb, #NFDB |
850:In addition, science is a delight;
evolution has arranged that we take pleasure in understanding - those who understand
are more likely to survive. ~ Carl Sagan,#NFDB |
| 851:May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB |
| 852:the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 853:Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB |
| 854: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 own. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #NFDB |
855:World-rhythms
Through glimmering veils of wonder and delight
World after world bursts on the awakened sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Other Earths,#NFDB |
| 856:And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB |
| 857: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 its sufferings. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 858:Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB |
| 859:Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 860:He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 Such ~ Will Durant, #NFDB |
861:I think she might be dead!” he shouted with delight.
“Oh, look,” whispered Luna happily, as the Ravenclaws crowded in around Alecto. “They’re pleased! ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB |
| 862:Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means … ~ Andrew M Greeley, #NFDB |
| 863:She made a long and detailed tour with no planned itinerary, stopping with no other motive than her unhurried delight in the spirit of things. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB |
| 864:So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB |
| 865:The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. ~ Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, #NFDB |
| 866:A guava tree in bloom, for instance, lost in the pages of a good novel, can bring delight with its fictional perfume to any number of real rooms. ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB |
| 867:dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB |
| 868:I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him. ~ Margaret Drabble, #NFDB |
| 869:LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB |
| 870:Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB |
871:Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir ~ Frank Herbert,#NFDB |
| 872:Bobby squealed with delight. “I’ll take a norange one and a labbender one,” he said happily. “Labbender is sometimes almost always my very favrit color. ~ Julie Campbell, #NFDB |
| 873:But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 874:Francis Schaeffer’s Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I’d long before dismissed as unanswerable. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 875:If we delight in the Lord, and seek to please him in everything, then something is going to happen to our own desires. His desires become our desires. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB |
| 876:Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever. ~ William Ernest Henley, #NFDB |
| 877:O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You. ~ Rabia Basri, #NFDB |
| 878: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. ~ Barbara De Angelis, #NFDB |
| 879:The nearer we get to the absolute Ananda, the greater becomes our joy in man and the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty, #NFDB |
| 880:The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB |
| 881:The pure psychic being is of the essence of Ananda, it comes from the delight-soul in the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Power of the Instruments, #NFDB |
882:Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 883: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 fur or feathers? ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB |
| 884:I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them. ~ Mary Russell Mitford, #NFDB |
| 885:It is for my good that I was afflicted, so that I might learn Your statutes. [...] Had Your Torah not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 886:Pain is a contrary effect of the one delight of existence resulting from the weakness of the recipient. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Knowledge and the Ignorance, #NFDB |
| 887:There was nothing so harrowing as that fiendish sadistic laugh revealing the entity taking gluttonous delight in causing him excruciating pain and fear. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB |
| 888:They wear themselves out in vain travail, without reaching their blessed consummation, because they delight in creatures, not in the Creator. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB |
| 889:To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB |
| 890:What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious. ~ Benjanun Sriduangkaew, #NFDB |
| 891:When the old faith is gone, and the enthusiasm for the gospel is extinct, it is no wonder that people seek something else in the way of delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 892:You do not delight in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 893:Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB |
| 894:But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB |
| 895:How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB |
| 896:Our task is not to solve enigmas, but to be aware of them, to bow our heads before them and also to prepare the eyes for never-ending delight and wonder. ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB |
| 897:The expression of the spiritual through the aesthetic sense is the constant sense of Indian art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty, #NFDB |
| 898:The life values are only poetic when they have come out heightened and changed into soul values. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty, #NFDB |
899:Find freedom in knowing that your human creativity is an echo intended to inspire worship of your Creator.
And then, create freely to your heart's delight. ~ Jen Wilkin,#NFDB |
| 900:have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 901:The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 902:The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB |
| 903:There is life and life, and as waste is only life sacrificed and thereby prevented from "counting," I delight in a deep breathing economy and an organic form. ~ Henry James, #NFDB |
904:To work for the Divine is very good, it is a delight. But to work with the Divine is a felicity infintely deeper and sweeter still.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#NFDB |
| 905:Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. ~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal, #NFDB |
| 906:What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight? ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB |
| 907:Delight is the soul of existence, beauty the intense impression, the concentrated form of delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty, #NFDB |
| 908:He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. "I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting," he continued with cruel and insulting delight. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB |
| 909:I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain? ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB |
| 910:Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. ~ Charles William Eliot, #NFDB |
| 911:Purification, liberation, perfection, delight of being are four constituent elements of the Yoga. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Perfection of the Mental Being, #NFDB |
| 912:The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures. ~ Mamoru Hosoda, #NFDB |
| 913:The way of knowledge tends easily towards the impersonal and the absolute, may very soon become exclusive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 914:Three are the words that sum up the second state of the Yoga of devotion, adoration, delight, self-giving. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human, Partial Systems of Yoga, #NFDB |
| 915:True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB |
| 916:What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight. ~ Walter Dean Myers, #NFDB |
| 917:Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. ~ Ch gyam Trungpa, #NFDB |
| 918:Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB |
| 919:Like exiles, their delight was not in where they now found themselves but in whatever they could remember about the place, and the time, they had abandoned. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB |
| 920:Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB |
| 921:[N]othing is more odious to the auditor, than the artless tongue of a tedious dolt, which dulls the delight of hearing, and slacketh the desire of remembering. ~ Thomas Nashe, #NFDB |
922:So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.”
“I’m more on loan,” I muttered.
“Yeah, my little library book. ~ Joss Stirling,#NFDB |
| 923:The day when we get back to the ancient worship of delight and beauty, will be our day of salvation ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty, #NFDB |
| 924:The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 925:The terrain of my face was heavy with soft, rumbling acne scars blurring whatever delight or madness lay beneath that cold and deadly New England exterior. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB |
| 926:Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB |
| 927:A day later, when a pair of dark wolves came sniffing around, they found him. Lemmy couldn’t help but giggle with delight as they tore him apart and ate him. *** ~ M R Mathias, #NFDB |
| 928:All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves... ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 929:Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB |
| 930:Christians should yield themselves wholly to the glorious God who has redeemed them, to delight in serving Him in whose fellowship heaven has already begun. To ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB |
| 931:His delight at seeing this creation of human hands was mixed with the bitterness of finally understanding that nothing like it ever would be created again. ~ Dmitry Glukhovsky, #NFDB |
| 932:If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 933:In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 934:Montesquieu had said that to love reading was to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight; Laharpe had said that a book is a friend that never deceives. ~ Upton Sinclair, #NFDB |
| 935:The sense of pleasure and delight in the emotional aspects of life and action, this is the poetry of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #NFDB |
| 936:The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
937:why do you smoke so damn fast?" I asked
she smiled at me with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ~ John Green,#NFDB |
938:Destiny’s lasso, its slip-knot tied by delight and repining,
Draws us through tangles of failure and victory’s inextricable twining. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,#NFDB |
| 939:For me,” he says, “the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.” In a new poem, he wrote, he “meets himself coming home. ~ Stephen Cope, #NFDB |
| 940:Men be so foolish as to have delight and pleasure in the doubtful glistering of a trifling little stone, which may behold any of the stars or else the sun itself. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB |
| 941:This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB |
| 942: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, #NFDB |
| 943:As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB |
| 944:Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB |
| 945:Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . . and others. This was valuable information. ~ Anthony Bourdain, #NFDB |
| 946:Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ~ Michael Cunningham, #NFDB |
947:O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
Immortal, whence has come thy swift delight,
Thy grasp. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, O Life, thy Breath is but a Cry,#NFDB |
| 948:Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ~ John Masefield, #NFDB |
| 949:The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 950:The man who knows the principles of right reason is less than the man who loves them and he less then the man who makes of them his delight and practices them ~ Confucius:Lun-yu, #NFDB |
| 951:All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB |
| 952:And on the other hand, you got people like Ligur and Hastur, who took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might even have mistaken them for human. Crowley ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB |
| 953:He faced Darktail. “You will take this Clan over my dead body.” Delight sparked in Darktail’s gaze. “That sounds fair.” The rogue leader flung himself at Rowanstar. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB |
| 954:I sit back, pushing my shoulder blades into the cushion behind me, and delight in the rare feeling of something just falling into place. Instead of just falling. ~ Colleen Oakley, #NFDB |
| 955:Leeli looked confused, and Podo swept her up to sniffle around her chin and shoulders like a dog. She squealed with delight and everyone joined in the laughter. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB |
| 956:Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres! ~ Lucian BaneLucian Bane~ Lucian Bane ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB |
| 957:matter of time before you marry, so do it.” Grace screamed with delight and jumped off Alexandra’s lap. Running to Dallas, she threw up her arms, crying, “Auntie! ~ Debra Clopton, #NFDB |
| 958:Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB |
| 959:So I mixed him an ‘End of the World Delight.’ I gave him about a half-pint of créme de menthe in a hollowed-out pineapple, with whipped cream and a cherry on top. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB |
| 960:They’d been through this before. He was flirty. It was inappropriate, but he seemed to delight in her squirming. The only way to face him was head on. “Fine, Chris. ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB |
| 961:To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB |
| 962:We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them. ~ Junichiro Tanizaki, #NFDB |
| 963:We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true. ~ Pericles, #NFDB |
964:Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely.
Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. ~ James Patterson,#NFDB |
| 965:A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 966:Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 967:It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 968:Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB |
| 969:Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. If ~ Will Durant, #NFDB |
970:Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark - a shining space
With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.
- Sick Love ~ Robert Graves,#NFDB |
| 971:The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 972:The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives. ~ John Friend, #NFDB |
| 973:Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing; to them it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 974:What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 975:A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 976:...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as if it had been forbidden. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB |
| 977:but three emotions are so often intertwined with deceit as to merit separate explanation: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and delight in having duped someone. ~ Paul Ekman, #NFDB |
| 978:Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 979:I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~ John Keats, #NFDB |
| 980:I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own. ~ Mark Dvoretsky, #NFDB |
981:I knew being your girlfriend wouldn’t have many perks. I still owe you things.”
“You have plenty of perks,” I tell her. “You just choose not to delight in them. ~ Krista Ritchie,#NFDB |
982:It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB |
| 983:It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 984:The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 985:The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. ~ Carol P Christ, #NFDB |
| 986:There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 987:They���d been through this before. He was flirty. It was inappropriate, but he seemed to delight in her squirming. The only way to face him was head on. “Fine, Chris. ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB |
| 988:What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take such delight in a simple image, a square of light on a dark wall? ~ Christian Bobin, #NFDB |
| 989:Without experience of pain we would not get all the infinite value of the divine delight of which pain is in travail. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine and the Undivine, #NFDB |
| 990:Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life ~ Lucy Knisley, #NFDB |
| 991:A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB |
| 992:For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 993:I have no master but Thee, no law but Thy will, no delight but Thyself, no wealth but that Thou givest, no good but that Thou blessest, no peace but that Thou bestowest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 994:Without perfect love there cannot be perfect beauty, and without perfect beauty there cannot be perfect delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #NFDB |
995:An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night. ~ No l Coward,#NFDB |
| 996:b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. 5 d Commit your way to the LORD; z trust in him, and he will act. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 997:Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB |
| 998:Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB |
| 999:He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents. ~ Phaedra Patrick, #NFDB |
| 1000:I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 1001:In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight? ~ Frank Capra, #NFDB |
| 1002:Meditation on Savitri, August 20, 2018 Monday.There were no vast perspectives of the spirit,No swift invasions of unknown delight,No golden distances of wide release. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 1003:The bakery, on the other hand, was a family’s understanding that a kid didn’t have to do or achieve or own anything more for the world to care, and even delight in her. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB |
| 1004:The enlightening power of the poet’s creation is vision of truth, its moving power is a passion of beauty and delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Breath of Greater Life, #NFDB |
| 1005:The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 1006:Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB |
| 1007:With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable. ~ Marco Arment, #NFDB |
| 1008:human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB |
| 1009:In everything that is there is the delight of existence and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 1010:In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight? ~ Frank Capra, #NFDB |
| 1011: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 in it while we have it. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB |
| 1012:Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring. And it acts itself continually by,—(1.) Contemplation; (2.) Admiration; and, (3.) Delight in obedience. ~ John Owen, #NFDB |
| 1013:He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience. ~ Samuel Eliot Morison, #NFDB |
| 1014:Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit! ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB |
| 1015:Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
1016:Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight
Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB |
| 1017:The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
1018:There is a charm in Solitude that cheers
A feeling that the world knows nothing of
A green delight the wounded mind endears
After the hustling world is broken off ~ John Clare,#NFDB |
1019:These sages breathed for God’s delight in things.
Assisting the slow entries of the gods,
Sowing in young minds immortal thoughts they lived, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB |
| 1020:The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB |
| 1021:What answer are we to make to the reflection that pleasure belongs to good and bad men alike, and that bad men take as much delight in their shame as good men in noble things? ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1022:As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 1023:Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1024:In a night such as is this to me, a man lives-lives a whole century of life-nor would I forgo this rapturous delight for that of a whole century of ordinary existence. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB |
| 1025:LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1026:May lily-dotted lakes delight your eye; May shade-trees bid the heat of noonday cease; May soft winds blow the lotus-pollen nigh; May all your path be pleasantness and peace. ~ K lid sa, #NFDB |
| 1027:The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 1028:Tulsi, beyond any perceivable clouds of skepticism, was the best living form of beauty known—the matchless delight, the most generous blessing granted to a human eyeball. ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB |
| 1029:Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.’ When we’re delighting in him, our desires come in line with his, not his with what we want. ~ Colleen Coble, #NFDB |
| 1030:I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
| 1031:It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team. ~ Isaac D Israeli, #NFDB |
| 1032:It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 1033:The beasts would not think it hard if I told them to walk on their heads. It would become their delight to walk on their heads. I am His beast, and all His biddings are joys. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1034:The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB |
| 1035:We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ~ Alberto Manguel, #NFDB |
| 1036:As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1037:How can we delight in our good fortune when we know that it must end, and that one of us will end it? Every day makes us richer, and brings us one day nearer to our doom. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB |
| 1038:Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB |
| 1039:Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB |
1040:These limitations of his power, knowledge, life, delight of existence are the whole cause of man's dissatisfaction with himself and the universe.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#NFDB |
| 1041:Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. ~ Pata jali, #NFDB |
| 1042:Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. ~ Patanjali, #NFDB |
| 1043:Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity! ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB |
| 1044:There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1045:To seek for delight is therefore the fundamental impulse and sense of Life; to find and possess and fulfil it is its whole motive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Double Soul in Man, #NFDB |
| 1046:If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1047:It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB |
| 1048:Mother seemed to wish that she’d never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 1049:National Arboretum at Westonbirt, just south-west of Cirencester. It is stunning, sensational, absolutely gorgeous: something which should delight every person in the country. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB |
| 1050:Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head. ~ Orson Welles, #NFDB |
| 1051:Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight. ~ Aileen Fisher, #NFDB |
| 1052:The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. —ZEPHANIAH 3:17 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 1053:What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him? ~ Sherwood Anderson, #NFDB |
| 1054:When she returned, he would take great delight in showing her how much he loved the morning, when the air held a tang of freshness and the early light dispelled all shadows. ~ Karen Hawkins, #NFDB |
1055:Dear friend,
dear trembling partner, what
surprises you most in what you feel,
earth's radiance or your own delight?
For me, always
the delight is the surprise. ~ Louise Gl ck,#NFDB |
| 1056:Love is not some eternal state, but a delight in the paradise of the imperfect. The holding of a thing is inextricable from the letting go, and to love, you must learn both. ~ Brian Staveley, #NFDB |
| 1057:She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB |
| 1058:She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB |
| 1059:The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. ~ Giambattista Bodoni, #NFDB |
| 1060:We both had a fascination with, and a delight in, stories. Do not give either of us gifts: give us the tale that accompanies the gift. That is what makes the gift worth having. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1061:We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other’s garde. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB |
| 1062:17The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1063:A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them. ~ Stephanie Mills, #NFDB |
| 1064:Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap? ~ Nevada Barr, #NFDB |
| 1065:enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1066:Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves. ~ Gene Stratton Porter, #NFDB |
| 1067:In yourself you rouse us, giving us delight in glorifying you, because you made us with yourself as our goal, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. Grant ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB |
| 1068:Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man - all this will be as nothing to the delight of which I speak. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB |
| 1069:The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
1070:The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn.
The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn.
While the Lily white shall in love delight.
Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 1071:To see divine possibility and overcome its play of obstacles constitutes the whole mystery and greatness of human existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 1072:All things are by Him and for Him. He utters Himself also for His own delight and sees that He is good. He is His own begotten and what proceeds from Him is Himself. Blessed be He! ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1073:In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. ~ Henry Wotton, #NFDB |
| 1074:Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north. ~ Carol Gilligan, #NFDB |
| 1075:So be joyful. Use your sense of humor. And laugh with the God who smiles when seeing you, rejoices over your very existence, and takes delight in you, all the days of your life. ~ James Martin, #NFDB |
| 1076:What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 1077:Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before. ~ Pamela Paul, #NFDB |
| 1078:Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 1079: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. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB |
| 1080:A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB |
| 1081:Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence. ~ Aaron Betsky, #NFDB |
| 1082:Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 1083:Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB |
| 1084:My bare arms are only a relief for the first few minutes before the unobstructed sun finds my fair skin, and I swear I can hear the rays chuckle with delight at such a tasty meal. ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB |
| 1085:Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1086:Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can’t fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah! ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB |
| 1087:The gift of Dharma surpasses all gifts. The taste of Dharma surpasses all tastes. The delight in Dharma surpasses all delights. The destruction of craving conquers all suffering. ~ Gil Fronsdal, #NFDB |
| 1088:The height of love is the rapturous immersion of ourselves in unity of ecstatic delight with the object of our love and adoration. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Modes of the Self, #NFDB |
1089:1073
They Ask But Our Delight
868
They ask but our Delight—
The Darlings of the Soil
And grant us all their Countenance
For a penurious smile.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB |
1090:...
Why I, in this weak piping time of piece,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on my own deformity :
... ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB |
| 1091:Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1092: He places placidity above all And refuses to prettify weapons; If one prettifies weapons, This is to delight in the killing of other.. ~ Victor H Mair, #NFDB |
| 1093:He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs” (Zephaniah 3:17). He sings love! In the air, over ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB |
| 1094:In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. ~ William Saroyan, #NFDB |
| 1095:Maybe love is thinking that everytime your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight. - Tamara Goodwin ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB |
| 1096:prosperity does not elevate the sage and adversity does not depress him. For he has always made the effort to rely as much as possible on himself and to derive all delight from himself. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1097:The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. ~ Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Chapter XXII., #NFDB |
1098:The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ~ William Blake,#NFDB |
| 1099:The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ~ Brian Cox, #NFDB |
| 1100:They are a new people who desire God and delight in His law, not because they come from better stock than the nation of Israel but because the Holy Spirit has recreated them. ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB |
| 1101:This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB |
| 1102:We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB |
| 1103:Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. ~ Joanna Newsom, #NFDB |
| 1104:Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 1105:Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, #NFDB |
| 1106:Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry. ~ Marie Rutkoski, #NFDB |
| 1107:Pain and pleasure themselves are currents, one imperfect, the other perverse, but still currents of the delight of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Solution, #NFDB |
| 1108:Shame, what was it? It was part of extreme delight. It was that part of delight of which man is usually afraid. Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB |
1109:The Nineteenth Century And After
Though the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB |
| 1110:Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB |
| 1111:When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption affords great delight; but when one has withdrawn one's hand from the completed masterpiece, the pleasure is not so keen. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
1112:Are Friends Delight Or Pain
Are Friends Delight or Pain?
Could Bounty but remain
Riches were good But if they only stay
Ampler to fly away
Riches are sad.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB |
| 1113:Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 1114:High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB |
1115:If something great awakes, too frail his pitch
To reveal its zenith tension of delight,
His thought to eternise its ephemeral soar, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB |
1116:In some faint dawn,
In some dim eve,
Like a gesture of Light,
Like a dream of delight
Thou com’st nearer and nearer to me. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, In Some Faint Dawn,#NFDB |
| 1117:Let us show to the people of the world, who think our religion to be slavery, that it is to us a delight and a joy! Let our gladness proclaim that we serve a good Master. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 1118:Once the Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #NFDB |
| 1119:Researchers generally love their calling to excess, and delight in nothing better than teaching others to love it also; as with all creatures driven by love, we can’t help but breed. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB |
| 1120: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. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1121:Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB |
| 1122:And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1123:As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. How then can you hope to have inward peace? ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
1124:Close only as love whom sorrow and delight
Cannot diminish, nor long absence change
Nor daily prodigality of joy
Expend immortal love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act II,#NFDB |
| 1125:Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB |
| 1126:For what am I now?’ ‘But a moment since, I was whole and one who could find delight in all things that were given me to do; but now I am as one who is lost and knows not his way. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB |
| 1127:Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB |
| 1128:This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB |
| 1129:The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 1130:As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it. ~ Margaret Cavendish, #NFDB |
1131:Divine Love, true love, finds its delight and its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received and appreciated, nor to be shared
- it loves for the sake of loving, as a flower blooms. ~ ?,#NFDB |
| 1132:It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB |
1133:My mind is awake in stirless trance,
Hushed my heart, a burden of delight;
Dispelled is the senses’ flicker-dance,
Mute the body aureate with light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Trance,#NFDB |
| 1134:Once two members had read the same book, they could argue, which was our great delight. We read books, talked books, argued over books, and became dearer and dearer to one another. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB |
| 1135:To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1136:We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he is pleasing his listener.” —ARISTOTLE, Poetics, XXIV ~ Oliver P tzsch, #NFDB |
| 1137:While the Muslim world took delight in innovation, progress and new ideas, much of Christian Europe withered in the gloom, crippled by a lack of resources and a dearth of curiosity. ~ Peter Frankopan, #NFDB |
| 1138:An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it. ~ John Paul Jones, #NFDB |
| 1139:But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before... "I am base" he whispered to himself. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 1140:Do we seek happiness because we’re sinners or because we’re human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB |
| 1141:I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB |
| 1142:I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB |
| 1143:Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 1144:Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 1145:The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1146: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. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB |
| 1147:You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB |
| 1148:By knowledge we seek unity with the Divine in his conscious being: by works we seek also unity with the Divine in his conscious being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 1149:certain formalities. It is a great delight also to seal up a love-letter, and, slowly putting on one's hat and coat, to go softly out of the house and to carry the treasure to the post. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB |
| 1150:Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB |
| 1151:If a man couldn’t affect the emotions you do possess—and you do have them—there’d be as much delight in such a union as there is in your relationship with the feed store owner.” “What ~ Melissa Jagears, #NFDB |
| 1152:Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB |
| 1153:Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be. ~ Jane Green, #NFDB |
| 1154:The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB |
| 1155:The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
1156:This universe an old enchantment guards;
Its objects are carved cups of World-Delight
Whose charmed wine is some deep soul’s rapture-drink. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB |
| 1157:This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 1158:In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quotation and Originality, #NFDB |
| 1159:The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible. ~ John Varley, #NFDB |
| 1160:Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!” —John Bunyan ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB |
| 1161:Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms. ~ Philipp Otto Runge, #NFDB |
| 1162:Delight is all around us you know, from the food we eat, to the night sky, to the dreams we have. It surrounds us with every moment, you just have to stop and take it in whenever you can. ~ Jonathan Maas, #NFDB |
| 1163:THE LILY The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat'ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1164:z Trust in the LORD, and do good; a dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. [2] 4 b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1165:I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB |
| 1166:To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB |
1167:Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,
Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight,
It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB |
| 1168:Do we seek happiness because we’re sinners or because we’re human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB |
| 1169:In spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB |
| 1170:It says somewhere—in the Book of Proverbs, I think—that lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. I considered my words carefully before I spoke them. ~ Alan Bradley, #NFDB |
| 1171:Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB |
1172:To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both victory and failure
As parallel experience rivers
Leading to the sea
Of progress-delight. ~ Sri Chinmoy,#NFDB |
| 1173:To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness. ~ J B Priestley, #NFDB |
| 1174:When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect — designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB |
| 1175:I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. ~ Venerable Bede, #NFDB |
| 1176:I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB |
| 1177:It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB |
| 1178:Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 1179:The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not. ~ Kelly Cutrone, #NFDB |
| 1180:There was a clunk and the door flew open; the sudden daylight was blinding. The Doctor saw, with delight, his friend, and a familiar big blue police box. He was not certain which to hug first. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1181:With secret delight, he began teaching Bad Eye catastrophically bad English. From that day forward, when asked, “How are you?,” Bad Eye would smilingly reply, “What the fuck do you care? ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB |
| 1182:After everything I had done for Percy Jackson, I expected delight upon my arrival. A tearful welcome, a few burnt offerings, and a small festival in my honor would not have been inappropriate. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 1183:any for some time until they finally went into an area of the Maze where they had never been before: Cheese Station N. They squealed with delight. They found what they had been looking for: ~ Spencer Johnson, #NFDB |
| 1184:"Be ready to do anything you can to further the happiness of any given sentient being that you meet and to engage in this kind of conduct with a heart of joyfulness, cheerfulness and delight." ~ 17th Karmapa, #NFDB |
| 1185:I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB |
| 1186:It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB |
1187:Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far. ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky,#NFDB |
| 1188:Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 1189:But supposing I could be so generous as to take delight in this, stil it is only a child; and I can't centre all my hopes in a child: that is only one degree better than devoting oneself to a dog ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB |
| 1190:During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. ~ Fritjof Capra, #NFDB |
| 1191:I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. ~ Anthony Hecht, #NFDB |
| 1192:Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on. ~ Gregg Olsen, #NFDB |
| 1193:The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life. ~ Alan Lightman, #NFDB |
| 1194:To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB |
1195:Delight of being, Ananda, is the eternal truth of the union of this conscious being and its conscious force whether absorbed in itself or else deployed in the inseparable duality of its two aspects.
~ SATM?,#NFDB |
| 1196:Disapproval of that which threatens and hurts us, approval of that which flatters and satisfies refine into the conception of good and evil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #NFDB |
| 1197:I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1198:Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1199:On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB |
| 1200:Planets in the ninth house often indicate world travel. At the least, a person with ninth-house placements will have friends from different lands and may delight in international foods and culture. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1201:Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB |
| 1202:The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 1203:A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. ~ Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 720, #NFDB |
| 1204:A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB |
| 1205:In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1206:Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB |
| 1207:The enjoyment of the infinite delight of existence free from ego, founded on oneness of all in the Lord, is what is meant by the enjoyment of Immortality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, Conclusion and Summary, #NFDB |
| 1208:The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1209:The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. ZEPHANIAH 3:17 ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB |
| 1210:There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 1211:the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 1212:with the same delight that we took as children in seeing a face in a cloud, grown-up artists draw the lines between the bigger dots of grown-up life: sex, love, vanity, violence, illness, death. ~ Amanda Palmer, #NFDB |
| 1213:Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them. ~ Holly Lisle, #NFDB |
| 1214:I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB |
| 1215:The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center. ~ Peter Julian Eymard, #NFDB |
| 1216:The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB |
| 1217:In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. ~ Alan Lightman, #NFDB |
| 1218:Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1219:Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 1220:She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence. ~ Karen Abbott, #NFDB |
| 1221:Siddhartha was thus loved by everyone. He was a source of joy for everybody, he was a delight for them all. But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB |
| 1222:Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
1223:THOUGH the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.
~ William Butler Yeats, The Nineteenth Century And After
,#NFDB |
| 1224:Because it makes me happy when the words fall together and the picture comes and the make-believe people do things that delight me. But it's better with you, Constant Reader. Always better with you. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 1225:For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1226:One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers. ~ Diane Lane, #NFDB |
| 1227:Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years. Luo ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB |
| 1228:Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free ’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, ’Twill be in the valley of love and delight. ~ Louise Miller, #NFDB |
| 1229:If the things of this world delight you, praise God for them but turn your love away from them and give it to their Maker, so that in the things that please you you may not displease him. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB |
| 1230:O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB |
| 1231:Remember, a great tale isn’t just about you. Ultimately, the reader should close your book and feel that a connection has been made, to realize with wonder and delight that “This story is about me. ~ David Farland, #NFDB |
| 1232:When Buchi said “Amen!” with that delight, that gusto, Obinze feared she would grow up to be a woman who, with that word “amen,” would squash the questions she wanted to ask of the world. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB |
| 1233:When Buchi said, "Amen" with that delight, that gusto, Obinze feared she would grow up to be a woman who, with that word "amen," would squash the questions she wanted to ask of the world. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB |
| 1234:A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB |
| 1235:Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing. ~ Pietro Aretino, #NFDB |
| 1236:I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB |
| 1237:But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB |
| 1238:Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. ~ Helen Dunmore, #NFDB |
| 1239:Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged. ~ Hosea Ballou, #NFDB |
| 1240:For the LORD your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1241:Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB |
| 1242:Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB |
| 1243:Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB |
| 1244:Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight? ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB |
| 1245:The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB |
| 1246:The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended. ~ Mary Augusta Ward, #NFDB |
| 1247:“Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.”― G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales Energy is eternal delight. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1248:When we have all the true delight of his being, then heaven is within ourselves, and wherever he is and we are, there we have the joy of his kingdom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #NFDB |
| 1249:If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB |
| 1250:If you live in Boston, Samuel Adams draft beer (Summer Ale) and Dunkin’ Donuts are essentials of life. But I discovered to my delight that even these indulgences can be offset by persistent exercise. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1251:IT IS customary for such as seek a Prince’s favour, to present themselves before him with those things of theirs which they themselves most value, or in which they perceive him chiefly to delight. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 1252:The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture. Poetry was awful good material to think with. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB |
| 1253:We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB |
| 1254:At the end of the story, the elder brother has an opportunity to truly delight the father by going into the feast. But his resentful refusal shows that the father’s happiness had never been his goal. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 1255:Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB |
| 1256:In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB |
| 1257:Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB |
| 1258:Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world’s beauty and abundance. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB |
1259:The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB |
| 1260:24But †let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, jjudgment, and righteousness in the earth. † For in these I delight,” says the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1261:I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be. ~ Ty Burrell, #NFDB |
| 1262:In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1263:I think, Lillian, that when we do not pause to admire God’s wonderful handiwork in putting this world together, we disappoint Him. Surely He must delight in our wonder when we delight in His creation. ~ Kim Vogel Sawyer, #NFDB |
| 1264:Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun) ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1265:the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 1266:The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, #NFDB |
| 1267:When I raised my glass to our guests, they shrieked with delight, downing their glasses and then throwing them against the walls. Kriss and I weren’t expecting that and shrugged before tossing ours as well. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB |
| 1268:Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB |
| 1269:I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
1270:I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,#NFDB |
| 1271:You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven ~ Martin Buber, #NFDB |
1272:And high Delight, a spirit infinite,
That is the fountain of this glorious world,
Delight that labours in its opposite,
Faints in the rose and on the rack is curled. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Parabrahman,#NFDB |
| 1273:Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB |
| 1274:Father Frank had shared with Aline, Mike, Fran and Steve something Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Mary Higgins Clark, #NFDB |
| 1275:He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 1276:It held clothing: a wolfskin cloak. Vasya stared down at these things with a delight she had never felt for the gold or gems of her dowry. They belonged to someone else, someone more capable and strange. ~ Katherine Arden, #NFDB |
| 1277:Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, [T5], #NFDB |
| 1278:When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 1279:An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB |
| 1280:But their childish delight will end; it will cost them dear. But they will see at last, the foolish children, that, though they are rebels, they are impotent rebels, unable to keep their own rebellion. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 1281:FriXion by Pilot in blue. It writes so smoothly, and being able to erase it gives me a sense of power and delight. I often use the pen with a “smart” notebook (like the Rocketbook Everlast smart notebook) ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 1282:Joy, it is, which I've never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self-delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB |
| 1283:The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB |
| 1284:We knew a flood was inconvenient and destructive. At the same time we couldn’t help but feel a peculiar sort of delight that something beyond us was large enough to destroy the inexorability of our routines. ~ Jean Hegland, #NFDB |
| 1285:But the Court of Criminal Appeals was not always a rubber stamp for the prosecution. Much to Mark Barrett’s delight, he received the news on April 16, 1991, that a new trial had been ordered for Greg Wilhoit. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB |
| 1286:To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
1287:What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for the sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.
~ Sri Aurobindo,#NFDB |
| 1288:When we behold the glory of Christ in the gospel, it reorders the loves of our hearts, so we delight in him supremely, and the other things that have ruled our lives lose their enslaving power over us. ~ Sinclair B Ferguson, #NFDB |
| 1289:A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1290:All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1291:HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process. ~ Brian Halligan, #NFDB |
| 1292:I absolutely refuse to let those people at the motor registry take my photograph. Their lighting set-up is terrible. They seem to take cruel delight in making everyone look like they’ve been dead for six months. ~ R A Spratt, #NFDB |
| 1293:Joy, it is, which I’ve never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self – delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB |
| 1294:... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB |
1295:Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but in
the desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal,
is only yours when what you most desire is just out of your reach. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB |
| 1296:We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight. ~ John Hollander, #NFDB |
| 1297: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, #NFDB |
| 1298:Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB |
| 1299:On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature. ~ Ferdinand von Mueller, #NFDB |
| 1300:Seek out that from which all existences are born, by which being born they live and to which they return...From Delight all these existences were born, by Delight they live, towards Delight they return. ~ Taittiriya Upanishad, #NFDB |
| 1301:Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. ~ Gene Roddenberry, #NFDB |
| 1302:Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. “Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease,” Luke read aloud. “Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB |
| 1303:The only parameter that is to guide our Sabbath is delight. Will this be merely a break or a joy? Will this lead my heart to wonder or routine? Will I be more grateful or just happy that I got something done? ~ Dan B Allender, #NFDB |
1304:There are places which offer but scant consolation
while others offer one great delight.
However, make the Lord the mainstay and refuge of your soul,
wherever and however you may be.
~ Ibn Arabi, Silence
,#NFDB |
| 1305:The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 1306:After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen. ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB |
| 1307:For the LORD your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. ZEPHANIAH 3:17 ~ Susie Larson, #NFDB |
| 1308:Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB |
| 1309:Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object. ~ Inge Morath, #NFDB |
| 1310:Progress consists not in rejecting beauty and delight, but in rising from the lower to the higher, the less complete to the more complete beauty and delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #NFDB |
| 1311:Seek out that from which all existences are born, by which being born they live and to which they return...From Delight all these existences were born, by Delight they live, towards Delight they return. ~ Taittiriya Upanishad, #NFDB |
| 1312:The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 1313:The Word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 1314:But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart a delight which was half sorrow to her grief-crushed soul and withered heart. ~ Guy de Maupassant, #NFDB |
| 1315:For the LORD your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. (Zeph. 3:17 NLT) ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB |
| 1316:I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms. ~ Fernando Botero, #NFDB |
| 1317:I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 1318:Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB |
| 1319:Poetry raises the emotions and gives each its separate delight. Art stills the emotions and teaches them the delight of a restrained and limited satisfaction. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #NFDB |
| 1320: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. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 1321: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. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 1322:If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB |
| 1323: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 of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB |
| 1324:Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 1325:What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB |
| 1326:When she had delight in her heart, her face transcended all her suffering, whereupon the scars and the deformed features and the mottled skin became the remarkable face of a hero and the cherished face of a friend. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 1327:All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life. ~ Mencius, #NFDB |
| 1328:Augustine's Confessions..."What it is, therefore," he begins, "that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them? ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB |
| 1329: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. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, #NFDB |
1330:This is the owner of Dark Haven. Master Xavier. Call him ‘my liege.’”
Xavier sighed. He had no idea who’d first given him that title, but the submissives took such delight in it, he’d allowed it to continue. ~ Cherise Sinclair,#NFDB |
| 1331:A certain class of minds shrink from aggressiveness as if it were a sin. Their temperament forbids them to feel the delight of battle and they look on what they cannot understand as something monstrous and sinful. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 1332:First, whose company do you most enjoy? Do you seek fellowship with other believers and delight in conversations about Christ? Or do you prefer the company of the world and rarely speak about the things of God? ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB |
| 1333:For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1334:It is our duty and delight to adore our great God, but he is not honored by ignorant adoration, for that can only be a charade. Adoration must be based on some knowledge, otherwise it is not God himself whom we adore. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 1335:Lord teach us to be resigned to Thy will; teach us to delight in Thy law; teach us to have no will but Thy will; teach us to be sure that everything Thou doest is good — is the very best that can be done. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 1336:Man is subordinate to certain absolute values; there is no delight in the human form leading to its natural reproduction; it is always distorted to fit the more abstract forms which convey intense religious emotion. ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB |
1337:My mind is hushed in wide and endless light,
My heart a solitude of delight and peace,
My sense unsnared by touch and sound and sight,
My body a point in white infinities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Liberation - I,#NFDB |
| 1338:success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 1339:What I’ll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won’t be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won’t be someone I could have created by myself. — ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB |
| 1340:Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves — sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation. ~ Gris Grimly, #NFDB |
| 1341:Being mindful of our feelings we will get Delighted. The quality of life is in proportion of our capacity to get delighted. The capacity for delight is within our capacity to pay attention to things around us. ~ Nata a Nuit Pantovi, #NFDB |
| 1342:Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 1343:Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. ~ Saadi, #NFDB |
| 1344:our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1345:There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 1346:The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1347:The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry. ~ Robert Johnson, #NFDB |
| 1348:Unholy delight lit Giles’s dark face to flashing brilliance. She realized that while he mightn’t be handsome, he was breathtakingly attractive and brimming with potent masculinity more powerful than mere good looks. ~ Anna Campbell, #NFDB |
| 1349:Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff, and he had some great ideas about how to do it. It was a delight to work with him in that regard. ~ Keith Carradine, #NFDB |
| 1350:Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words. ~ Oliver Lodge, #NFDB |
| 1351:And if it is a play of the All-Existence, then we may well consent to play out our part in it with grace and courage, well take delight in the game along with our divine Playmate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, #NFDB |
| 1352:If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise. ~ Robert D Putnam, #NFDB |
| 1353: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. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB |
| 1354:The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB |
| 1355:There is a seaward bulge of stratocumulus. Sun glint and littoral drift. I see blooms of plankton in a blue of such Persian richness it seems an animal rapture, a colour change to express some form of intuitive delight. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 1356:What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting me overhead with the stern reproach that is every Western woman's sly delight, "You're too thin"? ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB |
| 1357:What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB |
| 1358:...When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB |
1359:All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight
Keeping time.time.time
In a sort Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells,bells,bells,
Bells,bells,bells. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,#NFDB |
| 1360:An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1361:Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
1362:IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,
How this prospect would enchant my sight!
And yet if I, Lily, did not love thee,
Could I find, or here, or there, delight?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, From The Mountain
,#NFDB |
1363:In my poetry a rhyme
Would seem to me almost insolent.
Inside me contend
Delight at the apple tree in blossom
And horror at the house-painter’s speeches.
But only the second
Drives me to my desk. ~ Bertolt Brecht,#NFDB |
| 1364:... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 1365:What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. ~ Denis de Rougemont, #NFDB |
| 1366:When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB |
| 1367:If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. ~ Julian Assange, #NFDB |
| 1368:I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. ~ Elizabeth Taylor, #NFDB |
| 1369:In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality (1876)., #NFDB |
1370:One day you discover you are alive.
Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight!
You laugh, you dance around, you shout.
But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon. ~ Ray Bradbury,#NFDB |
| 1371:Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 1372:the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world. ~ Daphne Kalotay, #NFDB |
| 1373:There you have the deferrer’s delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB |
| 1374:When we abide, delight, and dwell in Him, He then places within us desires that line up with His best desire for us. Therefore, He can give us whatever we ask, because we will only want what's consistent with His best. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB |
| 1375:Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability. ~ D T Suzuki, #NFDB |
| 1376:Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2)But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1377:If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553). ~ Richard Baxter, #NFDB |
| 1378:One: Sweat for generations and the hard work of teams. Two: In Wipro we work for the customer’s delight. Three: A bit of luck. The third point will not be of any consequence if the first two aspects are not achieved. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB |
| 1379:We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight—and all life is to be lived in the spirit of rapt absorption in an arabesque of rhythms. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB |
| 1380:When we delight in something, we declare our delight. When we adore someone, we announce our adoration. Isn’t this, then, the essence of worship—lifting up with our lips and our lives the one we love above everything else? ~ David Platt, #NFDB |
| 1381:Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. Psalm 1:1-2 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1382:If you’re exposed to grief long enough, you can become addicted to it, you know. You begin to feel something’s missing whenever you’re without sadness. And once this happens, sadness becomes a kind of queer delight... ~ Akimitsu Takagi, #NFDB |
| 1383:In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB |
| 1384:Leonardo is both an extraordinary left-brained academician obsessed with portraying perspective correctly and an impish right-brained trickster who takes delight in fooling the viewer with perspectivist sleights of hand. ~ Leonard Shlain, #NFDB |
| 1385:There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of shirking the hard work of the world, and at the same time delight in the many-sided beauty of life ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 1386:You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 1387:Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB |
| 1388:God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB |
| 1389:On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB |
| 1390:So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still. ~ Veronica Franco, #NFDB |
| 1391:To know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Realisation of Sachchidananda, #NFDB |
| 1392:You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB |
| 1393:Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it. ~ M J Ryan, #NFDB |
| 1394:We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger. ~ Michael Scott, #NFDB |
| 1395:Biting a plump bottom lip, I stare into endless irises open and poised over my own. Sliding my hand up her thigh, under her gown, I pull her closer with the hand cupping her hipbone, releasing the growl of a king caught in delight. ~ Poppet, #NFDB |
| 1396:Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull! ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB |
1397:How shall the mighty Mother her calm delight
Keep fragrant in this narrow fragile vase,
Or lodge her sweet unbroken ecstasy
In hearts which earthly sorrow can assail ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB |
| 1398:If indeed "elegance is frigid," it can as well be described as filthy. There is no denying, at any rate, that among the elements of the elegance in which we take such delight is a measure of the unclean, the unsanitary. ~ Jun ichir Tanizaki, #NFDB |
| 1399:I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB |
1400:Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
Khan: "Or the question it asks you, forcing you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx. ~ Italo Calvino,#NFDB |
1401:Poured its maze of tangled charm
And heady draught of Nature’s primitive joy
And the fire and mystery of forbidden delight
Drunk from the world-libido’s bottomless well. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB |
| 1402:22And Samuel said, w “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1403:His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
1404:I lift my goblet to melt away sorrow,
but sorrow continues in sorrow.
Man's life in this world may never find
what satisfies the mind -
Tomorrow at dawn let your hair flow down,
For delight sail off in your tiny boat. ~ Li Bai,#NFDB |
| 1405:in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB |
| 1406:Marry me, Lada. It is the perfect solution." Lada laughed. Mehmed's smile grew, until he realized her laugh was not a sweet breeze of delight, but a brutal desert wind carrying stinging sand in its wake. "I will never marry. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB |
| 1407:Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1408:Hello, Thor,” said the sword. “Long time no see.” “Ha!” The god clapped his hands in delight. “I thought I recognized you. But isn’t your name Sumarbrander? Why did the human call you Jorvik?” “Jack,” the sword corrected. “Yak. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 1409:I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium. ~ Walker Evans, #NFDB |
| 1410:I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB |
| 1411:In vain did Phœbe’s alabaster brow show above the horizon reflected in the sombre mirror of the river; Zamore would not bay at the moon, although such prolonged ululation gives infinite delight to creatures of his species. ~ Th ophile Gautier, #NFDB |
| 1412:It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world. ~ Daphne Kalotay, #NFDB |
| 1413:The faces around her were blank, except for Elspeth’s, who seemed to smile with delight every time a shot was fired, as if she were watching fireworks explode around her. Her opium tablet had clearly taken its desired effect. ~ Steve Robinson, #NFDB |
| 1414:the promise of the Resurrection—eternal delight and joy in the presence of our Redeemer. Peter preached in Jerusalem of “the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets” (Acts 3:21, NLT). ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB |
1415:What are you giving him?"
Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would capture his imagination and not let go. "
"Ooh, Nintendo, how lovely! ~ Daniel Nayeri,#NFDB |
| 1416:It was clear that the delight being taken...was not the vicarious pleasure of watching people enjoying themselves and identifying with them, but in seeing people being humiliated while others enjoyed themselves at their expense. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB |
| 1417:70 g Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! 2 Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1418:[Grant me from the blessed gods prosperity, and] from all mankind the possession ever of good repute; [and that I may thus be a delight to my friends, and an affliction to my foes, but the first revered], by the other beheld with dread. ~ Solon, #NFDB |
| 1419:He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB |
| 1420:If anyone wishes for entertainment, such as will prevent him feeling solitary even when he is alone, let me recommend the company of dogs, whose moral and intellectual qualities may almost afford delight and gratification. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 1421:Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 1422:So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB |
| 1423:There was no such thing as arguing with delight. Like seeing a pretty girl with the sunlight in her hair, like pancakes and hot chocolate in front of a crackling fire. Delight was one of the fundamental forces of being, like gravity. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB |
| 1424:Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. (Psalm 37:3–5) ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB |
| 1425:When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1426:Boredom is actually a crucial warning sign—as important in its own way as physical pain. It’s a sign that our capacity for wonder and delight, contemplation and attention, real play and fruitful work, has been dangerously depleted. ~ Andy Crouch, #NFDB |
| 1427:I like my kahva the way I like my women… hot and black.” “I like my kahva the way I like my men,” she replied, her eyes half-lidded. “Ground up into tiny pieces and stored in a bag.” As the man sputtered, Loch laughed in delight ~ Patrick Weekes, #NFDB |
| 1428:I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB |
| 1429:Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them. ~ Ron Conway, #NFDB |
| 1430:The presence of so many things which ought to have delighted her and been her friends brought home to Moy how little delight she could now feel and how alienated she now was from all the beings to which she had once felt so close. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
1431:There is a wisdom like a brooding Sun,
A Bliss in the heart’s crypt grown fiery white,
The heart of a world in which all hearts are one,
A Silence on the mountains of delight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Universal Incarnation,#NFDB |
| 1432:Those who come together in the night time and entwine in swaying delight perform a serious work and gather up sweetness, depth and strength for the song of some poet that is to be, who will rise to tell of unspeakable bliss. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB |
| 1433:Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB |
| 1434:Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. ~ Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB |
| 1435:We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all. ~ Giordano Bruno, #NFDB |
| 1436:All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB |
| 1437:Be extra, extra cautious about this: don’t let negative-thinking people—“negators”—destroy your plan to think yourself to success. Negators are everywhere, and they seem to delight in sabotaging the positive progress of others. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
1438:I think Papa's quite fond of Willy, but he refuses to admit it."
"It's very much his loss," declared Lord Hastings. "Dogs are often better company than people."
"Yes, indeed!" Eliza beamed at him in delight. "Very much so. ~ Caroline Linden,#NFDB |
| 1439:My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB |
| 1440:The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB |
1441:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore.
Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves
And turned his strength into undying power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB |
| 1442:Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB |
| 1443:Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader. ~ Sarah Fielding, #NFDB |
1444:...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight
So unawares comes on perpetual night,
And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. ~ Anne Bradstreet,#NFDB |
| 1445:It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 1446:Rouse him:—make after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy, Yet throw such changes of vexation ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1447:The sheer delight of peering through a magnifying glass at a mouse bite, a moth hole or the zigzag channel carved by a woodworm, while breathing in the acerbic fragrance of the mould. It has here he came alive; here in the past. ~ Dezs Kosztol nyi, #NFDB |
| 1448:To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal. ~ Ronnie Barker, #NFDB |
1449:Whoa!” I jerked my hand up to stop him. “Wait, what?” I asked as sick horror shot through me. “You mean, like when the bodies get cut open?”
Delight lit his face. “Yes, you’ll be helping with the autopsies. You didn’t know that? ~ Diana Rowland,#NFDB |
| 1450:Andi Teran’s first novel is vivid and fully realized, an entire universe expertly condensed into the pages you hold in your hands. Ana herself is a complicated delight, and by the end of the book I wanted to scoop her up into my arms. ~ Emma Straub, #NFDB |
| 1451:Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece. ~ Leslie Marmon Silko, #NFDB |
| 1452:Lady Anne Bishop, he was coming to realize to his growing delight, was far more complex than he'd anticipated. Each moment the plans he'd worked out to win her needed to be modified and adapted as he learned something new about her. ~ Suzanne Enoch, #NFDB |
| 1453:A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1454:Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust. ~ Alcuin, #NFDB |
| 1455:Neither anger nor hope served any purpose. Nor grief. It was not the time for grief yet. Rekam was here with them, and they would delight in him as long as he was here. As long as his life. He is my great gift. You do hold my joy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
1456:Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feeling
in a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman. ~ Will Durant,#NFDB |
| 1457:Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion. ~ Alice Meynell, "Introductory Note" to The Poetry of Pathos & Delight: From the Works of Coventry Patmore; Passages Selected by Alice Meynell (London: William Heinemann, 1906), p. xi, #NFDB |
| 1458:Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 1459:He had eaten his share of the dinner, but he hadn’t really enjoyed it because he was thinking all the time about Turkish Delight—and there’s nothing that spoils the taste of good ordinary food half so much as the memory of bad magic food. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1460:Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB |
| 1461:Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1462:We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 1463:Your voice getting hoarser, deeper, your eyes blacker, your blood thicker, your body fuller. A voluptuous servility and a tyrannical necessity. More cruel now than before—consciously, willfully cruel. The insatiable delight of experience. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB |
| 1464:1:1 Blessed is the man [1] who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
1465:A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
A mute Delight regards Time’s countless works:
To house God’s joy in things Space gave wide room,
To house God’s joy in self our souls were born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB |
| 1466:I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB |
| 1467:Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 1468:See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB |
| 1469:Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB |
| 1470:What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl.” He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB |
| 1471:Will you explain this to me: Why do women conjure up difficulties where none exist?” “Because women are wise, and they see the future coming down the road long before men see it.” “Oh. I thought it was because they delight in misery. ~ Phyllis T Smith, #NFDB |
| 1472:A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness under the guise of a moral weakness. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB |
| 1473:Elder brothers’ inability to handle suffering arises from the fact that their moral observance is results-oriented. The good life is lived not for delight in good deeds themselves, but as calculated ways to control their environment. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB |
| 1474:How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1475:In the end that Face which is the delight or terror of the universe must be turned upon each of us either with one expression or with the other, either conferring glory inexpressible or inflicting shame that can never be cured or disguised. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1476:let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things—men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of heaven falls on them. There ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 1477:Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1478:Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 1479:18 Let your o fountain be blessed, and s rejoice in t the wife of your youth, 19 a lovely u deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts v fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated [4] always in her love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1480:And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather depth and strength for the song of some coming poet, who will arise to speak of ecstasies beyond telling. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB |
| 1481:And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB |
1482:So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still. ~ Veronica Franco,#NFDB |
| 1483:We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support. ~ Barbara Sher, #NFDB |
| 1484:We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1485:Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB |
| 1486:Some were popular sex symbols: graffiti from the first century AD have been found on walls in Pompeii—one Thracian gladiator was “the maiden’s prayer and delight” and “the doctor to cure girls.” Their images appeared on pots and dishes. ~ Anthony Everitt, #NFDB |
| 1487:The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB |
| 1488:The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB |
| 1489:Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB |
| 1490:We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. ~ John Winthrop, #NFDB |
| 1491:Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen." ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 1492:Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB |
| 1493:Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB |
| 1494:Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind-- ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB |
| 1495:The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it. ~ Nathan Myhrvold, #NFDB |
| 1496:The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. ~ Saint Maximus the Confessor, #NFDB |
| 1497:The same class can be a delight for one student and a torment for another. One is excited; the other is bored. Both students are in the same place, and both are listening to the same teacher. But one is in heaven and the other is in hell. ~ Benjamin Myers, #NFDB |
| 1498:What’s great now is that I know that Jesus trumps our desires. Jesus opens up a story for us that fulfills (and exceeds) our heart’s desire if we delight in him. Jesus doesn’t cram us into preset molds; he molds us for God-birthed purposes. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB |
| 1499:I took particular delight in how well she understood high and low culture, and how comfortably she went between them, seeing them (correctly, in my opinion) not as opposites to be reconciled but as different ways of addressing the same ideas. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1500:Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight. ~ Robert Penn Warren, #NFDB |