Delight
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life — not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.