Delight Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

  Egerton Brydges

  Eye, Soul, Sensual

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• Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Cooking, Shapes

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.160, U of Nebraska Press

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• Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.

  Deepak Chopra

  Play, Soul

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• 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

  World, Helping, Abundance

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• Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

  H. G. Wells

  Statistics, Scripture, Satan

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.6276, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Song, Book, Writing

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• Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Sex, Passion

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophical, Care, Comedy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.278, Crown Archetype

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• God is not in love with some future version of you. It’s not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It’s not you when you get your act together....If you believe that Christ’s love for you is a future love for you, then you dismiss the cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Believe, Together, Tomorrow

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• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  John Milton

  Society, Harmony, Paradise Lost Book 1

  1665 Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.383-4.

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• The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sea, Joy

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.671, Discovery House

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• The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fashion, Spring, Wings

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• Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Brother, Kings, Beer

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• We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Views, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

  Horace

  Adversity, Too Much, Prosperity

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• You change people by delight, by pleasure.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Change, People, Pleasure

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• The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sight, Hearing, Bears

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.107, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• 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

  Summer, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

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• Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Men, Tables

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• 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

  Death, Summer, Mother

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Believe, Years, Generations

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• A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
  And turn delight into a sacrifice.

  George Herbert

  Sacrifice, May, Turns

  "The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc".

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• Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment.

  Dorothy Draper

  Fun, Smart, Believe

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