There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to work alongside Sir David Attenborough and Hans Zimmer. — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. — Yanni Copy Share Image
The memory of us as one, I'm going to live well somehow. If it's because I loved you too much..3rd April 1986.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
