Favorite Quotations ~ Delight (original) (raw)

"To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight." ~ Celia Thaxter

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, this is happiness. ~ J.B. Priestley

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days--three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~ John Keats

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it. ~ Emily Dickinson

Dancing is my gift and my life� God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness. ~ Anna Pavlova

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Intelligence is nothing without delight. ~ Paul Claudel

My delight and thy delight/ Walking, like two angels white, /In the gardens of the night. ~ Robert Bridges

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God, because they were the best He ever planted. ~ John Muir

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ~ George Eliot

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good. ~ Buddha

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. ~ Edmund Burke

Life delights in life. ~ William Blake