top of page
.png){kind=small}
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
Standard
Customized
More
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Desire
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
Painting
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
Thought
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Beauty
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Appreciation
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
Love
"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
Love
"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."
Life
bottom of page