Delight Quotations

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

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

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

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.

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.

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!

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

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

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

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

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

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

We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

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.

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

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.

One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.

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.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

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.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

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.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

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.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.

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.

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

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

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.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

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.

Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

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.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

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.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.