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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
Chogyam TrungpaRead
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.
Robert Penn WarrenRead
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Cole PorterRead
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily DickinsonRead
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Anthony De MelloRead
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar DegasRead
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
Margaret FeinbergRead
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May AlcottRead
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
W. G. GraceRead
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James AllenRead
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
Pliny The ElderRead
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryRead
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
C. S. LewisRead
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar WildeRead
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert EinsteinRead
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
There is no place more delightful than home.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
Claude DebussyRead
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Publilius SyrusRead
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
C. S. LewisRead

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