Delightful Quotes

• Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Pain, Growth

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, Image

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• Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Play Time, Little Women, Work And Play

  Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. [Followed by Good wives]”, p.111

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• Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Order, Lovely, Together

  "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People". Book by Amy Sedaris, November 2, 2010.

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Artist

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.48, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Soul, Said, Ingenious

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• A man of wisdom delights in water.

  Confucius

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

  Julian Fellowes

  Surprise

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• There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Exception

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.22, Penguin

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• Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

  Jason Silva

  Imagination, Most Amazing, Possibility

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Motivational, Vanity, People

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• There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Love, Hours, Mutual

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• A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Book, Giving, Doe

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• I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, Ass, Curse

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• Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

  Henry Fielding

  Pain, Bad Friend, Men

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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• It is true that He does sometimes require of us things that to others seem hard. But when the will is once surrendered, the revolutionized life plans become just the plans that are most pleasant, and the things that to others seem hard, are just the things that are easiest and most delightful. Do not let Satan deceive you into being afraid of God's plans for your life.

  R. A. Torrey

  Encouragement, Religious, Doe

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• We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Journey, Views

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.381

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

  Theodore Robinson

  Movement, Vibrations

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• God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Moving, Joy

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Heart, Baha

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Marriage, Good Marriage

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Threshold, Pauses

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