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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. By Dorothy Day Joyful Delight Easy Mind Duty

Be honest about your joy. By Rob Bell Joy Honest

...joy, senseless joy! By Jane Austen Joy Senseless

I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness. By Jonathan Carroll Happiness Knew Flavor

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature. By Henry Suso Nature Pleasurable Harmony Utmost Depths

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. By Michel De Montaigne Communications Imparted Pleasure Fully Delightful

How delicious is pleasure after torment! By Pierre Corneille Torment Delicious Pleasure

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer Joy Unfathomable Draws Nourishment Quietness

My soul is filled with exceedingly joy. By Lailah Gifty Akita Joy Soul Filled Exceedingly

What one relishes, nourishes. By Benjamin Franklin Nourishes Relishes

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge ... the individual ... can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mysterywhich the world is filled with ... By Rainer Maria Rilke Pure Knowledge Bodily Experience Tongue

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. By Erin Morgenstern Finest Pleasures Unexpected

elegance and euphoria By Jennifer Niven Elegance Euphoria

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. By Samuel Johnson Pleasure Sought Seldom Found Time

Taste of forbidden fruit, made all the more exciting By Andrzej Sapkowski Taste Fruit Made Exciting Forbidden

Joy is the reward of life By Sunday Adelaja Joy Life Reward

genuine excitement By Tom Watson Genuine Excitement

Don't be misled: The imperative to 'Enjoy!' is omnipresent, but pleasure and happiness are almost entirely absent. By Nina Power Enjoy Misled Omnipresent Absent Imperative

Happiness is bliss. By J.r. Rim Happiness Bliss

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. By William Blake Delight Defiled Soul Sweet

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! By Lord Byron Mirth Innocence Milk Water Happy

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. By Edgar Allan Poe Pure Intense Derived Maintain Beautiful

Taste the joyThat springs from labor. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Taste Labor Joythat Springs

Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. By H.p. Lovecraft Thing Pleasure Unexplored Unexpected Mutability

The finest pleasure is kindness to others. By Jean De La Bruyere Finest Pleasure Kindness

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss. By Courtney Stodden Bliss Sugary Taste Satisfaction

I think the word 'pleasure' is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning. By Olga Goa Pleasure Word Unknown Precisely Meaning

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight. By Santideva Delight Joy

Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow. By Matt Chandler Follow Delight Rest World

joy is of all gifts the most divine. By M.r. James Joy Divine Gifts

I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful - a knife's edge of joy. By Christina Baker Kline Painful Joy Feel Strong Knife

Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange. By J.r.r. Tolkien Delight Heart Marvelous Strange Keen

Everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy kind of delight. By W.b.yeats Dreamy Delight Lovely Isbut Kind

buoyed notby thrill but by happiness. By David Levithan Buoyed Happiness Notby Thrill

Dizzying, this happiness. By Jenny Offill Dizzying Happiness

Exuberance is beauty. By William Blake Exuberance Beauty

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense. By William Shakespeare Giddy Expectation Round Whirls Sense

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. By Samuel Rogers Blest Fireside Happiness Charm Hours

Intelligence is nothing without delight. By Paul Claudel Intelligence Delight

I am delighted to experience the beauty of life. By Lailah Gifty Akita Life Delighted Experience Beauty

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. By Julia Margaret Cameron Attention Capacity Delight Gift Paying

a glorious laughing ecstasy of rage. By Mark Lawrence Rage Glorious Laughing Ecstasy

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it. By Robert Farrar Capon Joy Real Thing Eyes Ears

As the years go by, taking genuine delight in something becomes possible only when you can share that delight with somebody else. By Mikhail Shishkin Taking Delight Years Genuine Share

The sweetest happiness is one that we share . By Jacques Delille Share Sweetest Happiness

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice By Fernando Pessoa Rejoice Joyful Painful Pain

N every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. By Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Joy Gratitude Exalted Mingles Sense

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad. By Henry Ward Beecher Glad Greatest Pleasure Rebounds Hearts

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. By Amos Bronson Alcott Pleasure Essence Cup Effervesces Subsides

Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends By Stephen Spender Bends Joy Delight Accepts Richened

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. By James Montgomery Joys Past Exquisite

An unexplicable sense of happiness By Carrie Hope Fletcher Happiness Unexplicable Sense

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great. By Willa Cather Happiness Great Dissolved Complete

There is a pleasure in not being pleased. By Voltaire Pleased Pleasure

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun. By Edith Pattou Immense Sun Joy Feel Burns

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy. By Vikas Swarup Pain Pleasure Ecstasy Sweet

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. By John Milton Sweet Flow Smiles Intercourse Reason

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. By Victor Hugo Reflection Delight Inspire Enchanting Peculiarity

Joy is happiness shared By Bangambiki Habyarimana Joy Shared Happiness

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep. By Billy Graham Pleasures Lust Things Appeal Flesh

Peace through Pleasure By Susan Block Pleasure Peace

Marvellous mercies and infinite love. By Algernon Charles Swinburne Marvellous Love Mercies Infinite

Nothing is more dazzling than the smile upon your face By Michelle Geaney Face Dazzling Smile

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. By Marvin J. Ashton Pleasure Joy Form

There is a pleasure that is born of pain. By Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Earl Of Lytton Pain Pleasure Born

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! By Alexander Pope Delight Glowing Guilt Exalts Keen

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. By Mark Nepo Pleased Key Knowing Joy Easily

My child is my greatest pleasure...fulfilling my days with immense pleasure... By Mallika Tripathi Pleasure Fulfilling Child Greatest Days

Now shall my inward joys arise,And burst into a song;Almighty love inspires my heart,And pleasure tunes my tongue. By Isaac Watts Almighty Song Tongue Joys Ariseand

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness. By Rhonda Byrne Feel Joy Happiness

dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole, By Julia Kent Dazzled Sheer Essence

Delightful are forestsWhere the public does not delight.There the passion-free delight,Not seeking sensual pleasure. By Gautama Buddha Delightful Pleasure Forestswhere Public Delightthere

Joy - that's a cheerful little word... By Stephen King Joy Word Cheerful

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care alwayscomes to mar our joys. By Ovid Simple Joys Pleasure Pure Care

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion ... By Albert Einstein Joy Notion Amazement Beauty Grandeur

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. By Leonardo Da Vinci Satisfaction Thing Union Perfectly Adapted

Your joy lies within you. By Rhonda Byrne Joy Lies

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say? By Alfred Lord Tennyson Day Delight Pure Perfect

Contentment is the joy of life By Lailah Gifty Akita Contentment Life Joy

sitting happiness in... By Jung Chang Sitting Happiness

It feels wonderful to love and be loved. By Lailah Gifty Akita Loved Feels Wonderful Love

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Happy Pleasure Rearing Meal Growth

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! By Mark Twain Delight Confers Noblest Discovery Swells

Joy is not in things; it is in us By Richard Wagner Joy Things

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. By Sophocles Extent Joy Past Hope Expectation

Happiness is speechless. By George William Curtis Happiness Speechless

Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being. By Sri Chinmoy Confused Spiritually Advanced People Real

Blissful wonder! By Lailah Gifty Akita Blissful

The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant. By Matshona Dhliwayo Hidden Hand Rewards Gratified Contentment

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive By Benjamin Franklin Receive Pleasure Joy

Perhaps all pleasure in only relief By William S. Burroughs Relief Pleasure

Christ greatly delights in his people and they greatly delight in him By John Owen Greatly Christ Delights Delight People

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. By Edmund Burke Pleasure Satisfies Kind Quickly

Joy, has no cost. By Marianne Williamson Joy Cost

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature? By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Creator Creature Greater Pleasure Happy

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? By Andre Gide Painful Loveliest Creations Men Persistently

The greatest pleasure of life is love. By Euripides Love Greatest Pleasure Life

Energy is eternal delight. By William Blake Energy Delight Eternal

It is almost impossible to write about those moments and feelings of indescribable joy and ecstasy which only a soul can realize. Your silent, pleasant, and blissful presence often gives me those moments. By Debasish Mridha Realize Moments Impossible Write Feelings

End of the world delight By Kurt Vonnegut Jr. End Delight World