Saint Peter
Religious Leader
"What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in."
Delight quotes
Delight
648 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!"
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
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"Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight."
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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
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"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."
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"God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give."
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"Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night."
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
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"What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt"
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"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."
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"The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others."
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"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."
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"I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information."
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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."
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"Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it."
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"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
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"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health."
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"My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself."
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"These violent delights have violent ends."
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"The Lord delights in every little step you take."
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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."
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"The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!"
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