Quotes About Delight

He'd forgotten what delight felt like.

Schadenfreude, delighting in the misfortune of others. I often wonder why there is no equivalent term in English. There should be, considering it's a great American pastime.

I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.

It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke—in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

How time flies when one has fun!

Pleasure was the color of the time.

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile.

The bakery, on the other hand, was a family's understanding that a kid didn't have to do or achieve or own anything more for the world to care, and even delight in her.

Play is also part of developing trust. Play opens the heart and gives delight and focus, like an abacus did when we were young.

Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again?

It is perhaps worth remembering that we are all, as a species, prey to dreams and nightmares. Our art is built upon the irrepressible stream of images rising from a secret fulcrum that can never be trusted. And though these images can delight and amaze, they can also paralyze and terrify. There are times when we are shamed by the most fleeting savage fancy.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of pain

she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

The smallest viable market is the focus that, ironically and delightfully, leads to your growth.

The labor we delight in physics pain.

Although Madeleine's happiness was palatable, Jack's was even more

She [Catherine] walked through the stunned group in a haze of delight. Before all these people, her father had praised her. Not for docility or embroidery or music, but for the one quality she had thought he despised, her clarity of thought. Was it possible that he was proud of her?

But then: a pink nose tiny black paws and blinking sleepy eyes a small black fur ball not a BIG fat fur ball a kitten stumbling out of a basket and wobbling over to me and crawling up on my lap and licking my pajamas and I forgot that I hate cats as it crawled up onto my chest and purrrrrred and I was smiiiiiling all over the place.

But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.