Delight Quotes - Page 36

• I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Garden, Looks, Innocent

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.241

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• I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Garden, Giving, Meditation

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• 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

  Facts, Invention, Warp

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Weed, Garden, Heaven

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.6, TAN Books

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• To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Sunrise, Bed

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.83, Applewood Books

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• The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Warning, Share

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• When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Mirrors, Self

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• 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

  Lonely, Cheer, Loneliness

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 9 (1919)

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• When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humanity, Want, Way

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Has Christianity Failed You?”, p.98, Zondervan

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• 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

  Art, Exercise, Practice

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• 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

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• ...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

  Light, Desire, Enjoyment

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

  Leslie Charteris

  Believe, Men, Romance

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

  Zoe Weil

  Children, Parent, Who Cares

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• From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Laughter, Grief

  Hippocrates (1979). “Writings”

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• The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Way, Spirit

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• As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Kindness, Journey

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Nov 28, 2013

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• There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

  William Carlos Williams

  Order, Imagination, Usual

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

  Rumi

  Gazing, Window, Opening

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Uniforms

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Sorrow

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• 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

  Color, Style, Canvas

  Fernando Botero (1972). “Fernando Botero”

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