There comes a time when you should stop trying to please everyone and just focus on pleasing yourself. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing… — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis Copy Share Image
All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Irrfan is a very normal, laidback, regular guy. It has always been a pleasure and great fun working with him. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing.… — Morgan Wootten Copy Share Image
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
One of life's most simple pleasures is spending time with those we love... — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it — Clara Ortega Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I sit down on my sofa and I turn on 'Judge Judy.' That's my guilty pleasure. I could do a whole day… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Problem solving is hunting. It's a savage pleasure and we're born to it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
