Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
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.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
I delight in what I fear.
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
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.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.