If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy.… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just… — Erro Copy Share Image
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect.… — William Safire Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
