“Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.” WorldEndsBigsJoyPrideGratitudeOffersCreatingGardenDelightAppreciationNeighborLandscapeCheerOwnershipSmallestThankfulnessCheerfulnessJoyfulness Author:Julie Moir Messervy
“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.” MenLongHoursSinOffersHighestDelightAnguishTribulationOne HourMethuselah Book:A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song
“Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.” MomentsPastMemoriesPossibilityOffersDelightPresent MomentBroadsDedicationOur PastSpectrumDiscernmentDiscretionLive In The PresentAmnesia Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.” TearsDrugOffersDelightChessHeavenlyDelicious Book:The World's Great Chess Games Source: The World's Great Chess Games
“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansValuesMemoriesToo MuchGraceAdventureDevelopmentOffersUniqueIndiaMerePainfulDelightIndianEncountersDeniedDecayAssuranceCourtesyHuman DevelopmentValue Of LifeEruptionIndividualisticSqualorButchery Author:V. S. Naipaul
“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.” MenJoyEnjoyLosesChanceSorrowOffersUniversalCrowdsBoxesDelightThoughtfulOccupationLockedSolitaryShellsCommunionIntrovertDeprivedIntoxicationLocked UpStrollersMollusks Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.” AsksGrowsTreeWindOffersSafeShadowRootsGreenPlantRoundsDelightRuinsDecayLightningJaneLightingVigorousPropsFreshnessOrchardChestnutsRochester Author:Charlotte Bronte
“The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.” KnowsWayHeartMaySometimesLightLife IsWaitingChanceWatchesDarknessLaughingOffersBeatsDelightGods WillMarvelousSubmissionDankLevi's Author:Charles Bukowski
“Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.” MindHumansProblemLiteratureCareersPathOffersRewardsOneselfDelightEndlessClarityLastingWrestlingBeing HumanThrillConfinedCareer Path Author:Jonathan Stroud
“Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.” IfsGivingMindMayMeanDoeEyeRealizingWalksPathOffersEarsImportanceDelightEducatedConvinceAssuranceMake You HappyLurkingConvince UsEducated Mind Author:Iris Murdoch