Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being. It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
“•I found pleasure in wine. I found pleasure in women. And I found pleasure in spiritual experience. Only the last one was… — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We… — Robin Hanson Copy Share Image
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin,… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Copy Share Image
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of… — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image