Delight Quotes
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
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.
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling
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...
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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.
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
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.
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.
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.