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• Delight: Something or someone that gives) great pleasure, satisfaction, or happiness.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Delight: A high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture.  Dictionary.com
• Delight: A strong feeling of happiness: great pleasure or satisfaction.  Merriam Webster
• Pleasure,  Enjoyment,  Joy,  Happiness,  Appreciation,  Gratitude,  Approach life as a celebration,  Laughter, Excitement,  Savouring

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We can do without pleasure but not without delight

• We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. Jack Gilbert
• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. Alan Cohen
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Your quality of life lies in your capacity for delight

• Whether success or failure: the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. May Sarton
• 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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Look for every opportunity to take delight

• What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? Charles Baudelaire
• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. Hannah Arendt
• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose F. Kennedy
• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? Edmund Spenser
• Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. SARK
• Intelligence is nothing without delight. Paul Claudel
• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. William Blake

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Take delight in who you are and your uniqueness

• I pull up a chair and get acquainted with the me that exists right now. I am enough. I am beautiful as I am. This is a wonderful and courageous step. I can relax and enjoy myself. I become more tolerant of myself and others. I am able to delight in uniqueness. John Kehoe
• Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e.e. Cummings
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Take delight in doing what you were created for

• Everything—a horse, a vine—is created for some duty… For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. Marcus Aurelius
• The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. Tom Morris
• To work / to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. Katherine Mansfield

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Take delight in serving others

• Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. Marcus Aurelius
• Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one’s heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight.  Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Service,  Making a difference

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Take delight in love

• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller
• Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg
• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith
• Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. Sergei Lukyanenko
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts
• I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with—-our selves, others, and life itself. Openness —- the heart’s pure, unconditional yes – is love’s essence. And warmth is love’s basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes – the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love. John Welwood
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Take delight in knowledge

• Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. William Safire
• Desire to know why, and how — curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge — exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes
• The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature. Francis Bacon, Sr.
• Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals… which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes
• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov
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Take delight in the simple things and simple tasks

• Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. Rudyard Kipling
• The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in sombre circumstances and irksome tasks. Helen Keller
• Every normal function of life holds some delight. Will Durant
• Simple living,  Simplicity

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Take delight in your imagination

• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. Frank Barron
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Take delight in the present moment

• 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
• This is it. Not some other time, not some other place. Right here. Right now. I am standing at the exact centre of infinity and I see beauty and perfection and absolute delight everywhere and in everything. Jed McKenna
• Now is a priceless gift,  Live in the present

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Take delight in nature

• Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. Lorraine Anderson
• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. Daniel Boone
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Take delight in each fresh, new day

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestly
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Take delight in telling the truth

• Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson
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Take delight in children

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural. Alastair Reid
• To see your child through the Eyes of Delight is the greatest gift in the world you can give to your child and to yourself. John Breeding

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Take delight in growing your expertise

• Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. Joseph Addison
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Take delight in reading

• To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. Charles de Montesquieu
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Take delight in your potential

• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight. Jean Houston
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Take delight in discovery

• 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! To know that you are walking where none others have walked. Mark Twain
• To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness. B. Priestley
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Take delight in sharing and giving

• There is no delight in owning anything unshared. Seneca
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Take delight in going with the flow

• 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. Emmanuel Teney
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Take delight in trusting and being trusted

• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald
• It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely. Jeff Goldblum
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Take delight in overcoming difficulties

• To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Challenge,  Adversity,  Obstacles

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Take delight in being aware and paying attention

• There’s nothing so delightful as being aware. Would you rather live in darkness? Would you rather act and not be aware of your words? Would you rather listen to people and not be aware of what you’re hearing, or see things and not be aware of what you’re looking at? The great Socrates said, ‘The unaware life is not worth living.’ That’s a self- evident truth. Most people don’t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else’s—mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. Anthony de Mello
• The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Julia Cameron
• Attention,  Awareness,  Live consciously (with conscious awareness)

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Take delight in what you have today knowing that nothing lasts forever

• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely, we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. Somerset Maugham

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Don’t take delight in the misfortunes of others

• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others. Edmund Burke
• Never find your delight in another’s misfortune. Publilius Syrus

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More sources of delight

• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran
• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana
• There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireplace. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks – chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring. Edward Abbey
• To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought. Chinese Proverbs
• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.  Marcus Aurelius
• Delight in mediation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. Buddha

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• Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.  Evan Esar
• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. James Patterson
• Consumer: One who delights advertisers by acquiring unnecessary products.
• Cutickle : A delightful itch
• He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.  Reverend Sydney Smith
• I love all my children. I’m delighted to see them come and delighted to see them go.   Mary Wesley
• I never mind my wife having the last word; in fact, I’m delighted when she gets to it.  Walter Matthau
• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.  John Barrymore
• Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse yet he has left it out of his heaven.  Mark Twain
• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Bill Cosby
• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George Santayana

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