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Quotes About Delight

One good thing about someone really liking something you have is that you appreciate it yourself all over again.
~ Elizabeth Berg
luminous in their joy. There are photos of
~ Elizabeth Berg
When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.
~ Elizabeth George
Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.
~ Elizabeth George
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We must risk delight," he wrote. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they'd ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world. Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She delighted in all that she beheld, and it made you want to stay near her, in order to bask in her delight
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am going to spend as much time as I can creating delightful things out of my existence, because that's what brings me awake and that's what brings me alive. I
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I know that the delight in battle, what we soldiers think of as courage, is not essential, even to a soldier. I need not call up anger any more—and the anger I called, in Kolobia, opened the way for Achrya's evil. I know that I can, if I but ask the gods, know what is right, and do it.
~ Elizabeth Moon
I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The manifold gifts of God are there to be delighted in, to fall short of joy would be ingratitude.
~ Ellis Peters
Estaba en la plenitud de la exaltación. El mundo yacía bajo sus pies, hecho de música y flores; y el volaba muy por encima, a través de un crepúsculo de pura delicia.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Lo, this is she that was the world's delight.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
The delight that consumes the desire,The desire that outruns the delight.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
father-daughter relationship is unique in the kind of delight it brings to both persons, a proprietary pride that also contains an understanding of the boundaries that hold the two
~ Alice Elliott Dark
and hearing the lurch the well-known slap of joy
~ Alice Oswald
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
~ Alice Walker