Delight In The Little Things Quotes

#1. Delight in the little things.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

#3. The Lord delights in every little step you take.

Saint Francis De Sales

#4. And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight
So unawares comes on perpetual night,
And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.

Anne Bradstreet

#5. It was his turn for a little bit of smoke to escape him. I leaned into Gabriel and asked softly, "Can you do that too?"

His eyes never left Kostya, but his lips parted slightly. A tiny curl of smoke emerged. For some reason, it delighted me, but that delight was short-lived

Katie MacAlister

#6. So you got Phoenix back," declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. "That's lovely."
"I'm more on loan," I muttered.
"Yeah, my little library book.

Joss Stirling

#7. We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#8. A dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#9. Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Charles Edward Montague

#10. To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Aileen Fisher

#12. Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

Alcuin

#13. When a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.

Hans Christian Andersen

#14. Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

Amy Carmichael

#15. Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain,
More fair, because impossible
That any gain.
The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,
And that 's the skies!

Emily Dickinson

#16. To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

Louisa May Alcott