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Quotes About Delight

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
~ Karl Barth
Vera Vladimirovna was, as we have seen, very proud of her daughter's successful upbringing, especially perhaps because it had been accomplished not without difficulty, because it took time and skill to destroy in her soul its innate thirst for delight and enthusiasm.
~ Karolina Pavlova
And you know, that's another reason I named her Coco. Because to me, chocolate is about indulging in things that give you pleasure. And what's the point of life if you can't find joy?
~ Kate Klise
Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of exorcism against "saleslady," "old lady," "ladylike." Relishing the anachronism, even the formality a type of aphrodisiac, a contrast to our delight in the horny, the vulgar, the vernacular which we cultivate just as ardently.
~ Kate Millett
And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.
~ Katherine Hannigan
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
~ Fritjof Capra, physicist
Girls are for dessert.
~ Fritz Leiber
So very many times over the next three years i heard her laughter - no silver bells or sweet rippling sounds was her laughter, but like a five-year-old's bellow of delight, a cross between a puppy's yelp, a motor-bike and a bicycle pump.
~ Fynn
l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?...
~ Gerard de Nerval
Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Other people's parents are often a delight.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They did have a secret. The secret was the delight one feels when discovering a person who speaks one's native tongue.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
An absolutely delightful book about books, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry will draw you in with its wonderfully written characters and emotional resonance . . . A delight in every sense of the word . . . The little bookstore on Alice Island might just begin to feel like a second home, a cozy place to return to again and again when you need an escape from the world.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When our happiness is dependent on what happens to us and when our self-focus determines our daily mood, our joy will necessarily be limited to whatever good thing happens to us. But when we learn to truly delight in the welfare of others and rejoice in what God is doing in their lives, the potential for increased joy skyrockets.
~ Gary L. Thomas
For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.
~ Gautama Buddha
4Make God the utmost delight and pleasure of your life,c and he will provide for you what you desire the most.
~ Brian Simmons
laughed and played, so happy with what he had made, while finding my delight in the children of men.
~ Brian Simmons
He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.
~ Brian Wilson Aldiss
Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
~ Brillat Savarin
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
~ Brillat-Savarin
There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them.
~ Brillat-Savarin
That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. That we should not wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which will naturally produce its acts in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.
~ Brother Lawrence
My most usual method is this simple attention, and such a general passionate regard to GOD; to whom I find myself often attached with greater sweetness and delight than that of an infant at the mother's breast: so that if I dare use the expression, I should choose to call this state the bosom of GOD, for the inexpressible sweetness which I taste and experience there.
~ Brother Lawrence
our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.
~ Brother Lawrence