Quotes About Delight

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

Few things are so pleasant as the anticipation of them...

she was usually keenly susceptible to weather conditions and reveled in sunshine like a kitten.

How would this do you, Bingo? I said at length. A few plovers' eggs to weigh in with, a cup of soup, a touch of cold salmon, some cold curry, and a splash of gooseberry tart and cream with a bite of cheese to finish? I don't know that I had expected the man actually to scream with delight, though I had picked the items from my knowledge of his pet dishes, but I had expected him to say something.

Hay un cierto placer en la locura, que solo el loco conoce.

Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade

God does not delight in having to always explain what his will is; he enjoys it when we understand

The only parameter that is to guide our Sabbath is delight. Will this be merely a break or a joy? Will this lead my heart to wonder or routine? Will I be more grateful or just happy that I got something done?

It is not wrong to petition God on the Sabbath, but the heart of the Sabbath is to delight in all he has given us, rather than to ask for what has not yet been fulfilled. Prayer on the Sabbath might well fit into the categories of praise or invitation.

I couldn't wait to see then again, beautiful things. Extraordinary.

Look to the Bible for the answer. Ancient Jewish wisdom says, "Delight in serving other people." This is the best career advice you will ever get.

Even a (beautiful) figure brought into prominence by the meeting of two eyes affords delight only by the device of its union

If there is complete absence of delight, it only spells insentiency.

"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in."

I delight in what I fear.

I love Greek food in the summer.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

There is nothing very instructive, for example, in hearing that "the cow jumped over the moon," but who is not delighted by that poem's exuberant indifference to the possibility of making sense? It is a masterpiece. Even so, I am happy to know that some poems delight and instruct, which is a richer possibility.

But the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there? If we knew nothing of Hell, how would we delight in Heaven should we get there?

Life is short...eat desert first!

But why is laughter so creative? It reacts to contradiction with delight is why, thus opening the road to new discoveries.

We who have grandly fill'd our time; With Nature's calm content, with tacit huge delight, We welcome what we wrought for through the past. - SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE