Quotes About Delight

The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.

Agatha Swanburne - "So many cupcakes, so little time

Do . . . I . . . smell . . . candy?

Lumawoo apples, la la la!

Yum yum crumbs!

CAKE DAY! CAKE DAY! THE best day of the year!

Lumawoo! That is your birthday pen!

Lumawoo, look! Boo!

Lumawoo happy,

Everyone knew that the way to make something even lovelier was to put it in a pie.

It is the simplest, purest joy

Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

mic.7.18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. mic.7.19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

For me, happiness is eating a tasty plate of spaghetti"; or "Walking in the snow under the stars," and so on.

I dare anyone to find me a lovelier day!

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Happiness is not the reward of virtue," said Spinoza in his book Ethics, "but virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain our lusts; but, on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore are we able to restrain them.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Everyone talks about falling in love like it's the most miraculous, life-changing thing in the world. Something happens, they say, and you know. You look into the eyes of your beloved and see not only the person you'd always dreamed you'd meet, but the you you've always secretly believed in, the you that inspires longing and delight, the you no one else really noticed before.

For the first time in my life, I wasn't thinking about what would happen in the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years to come. I was right there in the moment, my world finally, albeit briefly, complete. And I was happy. Deliriously, deliciously happy.

Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature; they make us to smile.

There is a great beauty in little things.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

And I don't know why, but I sit on that step until the last person's gone home and I'm still grinning. Like someone who has a bit of a crush.