Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts."
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Delightful
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"There is no place more delightful than home."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description."
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"Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance."
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"Life is most delightful on the downward slope."
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"There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones."
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"There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones."
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"The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."
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"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
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"Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth."
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"The world is crammed with delightful things"
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"Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be."
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"The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly."
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"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."
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"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."
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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."
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"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior."
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"It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
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"Novelty is both delightful and deceptive."
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