The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.
My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Tell me a story of deep delight.
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
. . . there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.
One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
Every change of place becomes a delight.
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion