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• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Reading, Book, Knowing

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• Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

  Tim Gunn

  Vocabulary, Learning New, Activity

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.182, Abrams

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

  Robert Southey

  Morning, Bed, Kick Ass

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.149

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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• Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.120, GENERAL PRESS

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• My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, People, Ifs

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• Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

  Amos Oz

  Reading, Imagine, Pleasure

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• She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

  Gilbert Parker

  Race, Fierce, Harm

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Insane, Actresses, Nasty

  "'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe gets leather-y in racy photo spread" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 10, 2007.

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Struggle, Growth

  "Spiritual Partnerships" by Spiritual Partnerships, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pleasure, Variety

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• Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, May

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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• Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Writing, Wonderful

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• What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivational, Art, War

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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

  Anais Nin

  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, World

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• Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Flower, Knowing, Giving

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.105, Ardent Media

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• My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

  William Bartram

  Nature, Views, Order

  William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Should Have, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.6

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Children, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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