#delight

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

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Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort. ↗

— Richard Rolle

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I thought ... that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it. I thought that the good things He sent drew me into them as the waves lift the islands; but now I see that it is I who plunge into them with my own legs and arms, as when we go swimming. I feel as if I were living in that roofless world of [Earth] where men walk undefended beneath naked heaven. It is a delight with terror in it! One's own self to be walking from one good to another, walking beside Him as Himself may walk, not even holding hands. How has He made me so separate from Himself? How did it enter His mind to conceive such a thing? The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. ↗

— Bram Stoker

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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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