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Letter "D" » delight
«It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
delight, hostilities, hostility, Human heart, liberation, longs, mystery, reaction
«As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.»
Author: Emmanuel Teney
| About:
Faith,
Needs
| Keywords:
benefit, control, delight, delighting, faith, flow, flowed, flow out, longer, No Control, no longer, sense, strengthened
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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appointed, appointing, appoints, blue, color, deity, delight, everlastingly
«Danger and delight grow on one stalk.»
«''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
appears, artistic, delight, exercises, Moulds, presents, rare, style, surveyed, surveying, surveys, The Art of Reasoning, The Eye, weakness, weaknesses
«Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
beings, comprehension, connote, delight, deprives, depriving, err, errs, ever so, experienced, human beings, human right, passes, precious
«A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.»
«Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.»
«Energy is eternal delight»
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