Delight Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.

  Ellen G. White

  Appreciation, Heart, Character

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.2240, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  War, Struggle, Rumor

  "Lost Horizon". Book Pages (first lines), www.imdb.com. February 18, 1937.

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• You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

  Mark Schaefer

  Ubiquity, Needs, Stuff

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• The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of the tale (although this contributes to it) but from its literary qualities-the tale itself as a work of art.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Enchantment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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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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• It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

  Kurt Busiek

  Simple, Years, Wind

  Kurt Busiek (2011). “Astro City: Life in the Big City (New Edition)”, p.9, DC

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• 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

  Tree, Doe, Fruit

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.56, eKitap Projesi

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• Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Fashion, Heart, Eye

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• 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

  Heart, Honor, Rewards

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2014

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

  Alan Moore

  Memories, Dark, Childhood

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• 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

  Land, Joy, Finding Yourself

  "The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

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• 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

  Blessing, Joy, Heaven

  "Heaven and Hell". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John C. Ager, No. 399, www.sacred-texts.com. 1900.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Cat, Lap

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• Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

  John Owen

  Hate, Men, Two

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• Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

  Brother Lawrence

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• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Joseph Addison (1827). “A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons”, p.236

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• God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

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• Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Fire, Imagination, Soul

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• You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

  Sergei Parajanov

  Mother, Night, People

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