Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me.… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. Who knows but that which… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. — Livy Copy Share Image
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There's no pleasure in having nothing to do. The pleasure is in having lots to do and not doing it.” — Mary Wilson Little Copy Share Image
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life! — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home.” — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side the pleasure and privilege is mine. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
