#delight

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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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. ↗

— Anna Neagle

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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. ↗

— John Locke

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Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

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It is so delightful to teach those one loves! ↗

— Andrew Lang

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