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Quotes About Delight

Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37:4
~ Stormie Omartian
The echo of one of God's deepest truths: delight can emerge from and exist along with our scars.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military leaders should not provoke war out of wrath. Act when it is beneficial to do so, desist if not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life.
~ Sun Tzu
Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life.
~ Sun Tzu
So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Spring is magic~ sweet to the senes & easy to celebrate.
~ Susan Branch
I dream endlessly, my minstrel,' he said. 'I live in my dreams - they are the only thing this emptiness has not touched. Oh sometimes they are black and dreadful, nightmares from the pit. ... But most of them are wonderful, full of happiness and lost joy, and delight in making and being. Without my dreams, I should have gone mad long ago.' 'Ah,' Gwion said wryly, 'that is true of many men in this world.
~ Susan Cooper
Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
~ Susan Wiggs
Not everything about the Wind was bad. Sometimes it blew through the little voids and crevices of the Statues and caused them to sing and whistle in surprising ways; I had never known the Statues to have voices before and it made me laugh for sheer delight.
~ Susanna Clarke
Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone had ever proposed such a piece of magic before and begged Sir Walter to convey his compliments to Lord Castlereagh as the possessor of a most original brain.
~ Susanna Clarke
It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
When darkness hovers over earth And day gives place to night, Then lovers see the Milky Way Gleam mystically bright, And calling it the Way of Love They hail it with delight.
~ Joyce Kilmer
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
~ Julia Cameron
Life itself is the proper binge.
~ Julia Child
No se esconda cuando algo le produzca placer.
~ Julia Navarro
the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
~ Julia Quinn
It's bacon. How can anything in the world seem bleak when one is eating bacon?
~ Julia Quinn
The eggs were extremely interesting, as was the bacon,and the hydrangeas outside the window were absolutely fascinating. hydrangeas.who would have imagined?
~ Julia Quinn
Francesca,' he murmured, making his voice smooth and personable, 'it is a delight to see you.' 'And you as well,' she replied. She smiled then, but it was in an amused sort of fashion, and he had the unexpected sense that she was mocking him. But there seemed little to be gained by pointing this out; it would only demonstrate how attuned he was to her every expression.
~ Julia Quinn
She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman. And there it was. His faith in a higher power reaffirmed. Truly, moments of this ironic perfection could not come about by accident.
~ Julia Quinn
How can anything in the world seem bleak when one is eating bacon?
~ Julia Quinn
It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn't racing, and it wasn't pounding … It was dancing. Singing.
~ Julia Quinn
I cannot say that I'm not enjoying this. Just a little bit.
~ Julia Quinn
I want to entertain and inspire.
~ Richard Ashcroft