Delights Quotes

“The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
― Alcibiades

“I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's really not the point. The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. Holding open doors. Offering elbows at crosswalks. Letting someone else go first. Helping with the heavy bags. Reaching what's too high, or what's been dropped. Pulling someone back to their feet. Stopping at the car wreck, at the struck dog. That alternating merge, also known as the zipper. This caretaking is our default mode and it's always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

“Passion is life and delights await those whose soul lusts for new experiences. Every breath should stir deep, simmering desire for those who incite torrid urges and send blood coursing through fevered veins. Throw each shiver hard against unyielding rock, salaciously invade the soft pleasures whose ripe lips hunger for satisfaction, demanding the flame be fanned and thirst be quenched…Demand no less, take no prisoners…”
― Virginia Alison

“All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death, defamation, and conspiracy—and all that delights or gives pain to fools.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Delight yourself in the Lord.
He shall give you all the desires of your heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I never did understand the prospect of spending coin for pleasure, but my sister loved to shop. She ran her fingers lovingly over the fabrics on sale: silks and velvets and satins imported from England, Italy, and even the Far East. She buried her nose in bouquets of dried lavender and rosemary, and closed her eyes as she savored the tart taste of mustard on the doughy pretzel she had bought. Such sensuous enjoyment.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“I will serve up delights you've never imagined,' Locke's smile is infectious. He will serve up trouble, that's for sure. Trouble I have no time for.

'Have a care,' I say, drawing Locke's attention to me for the first time. 'I am sure you would not wish to insult the High King's imagination.'

'Indeed, I'm sure not,' Cardan says in a way that's difficult to interpret.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The last time you were here, we were poor hosts. But there are many delights we could show you.'

'Including a war,' puts in Grima Mog. 'What could be more delightful than that?”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing