If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover… — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive… — Laurel Mellin Copy Share Image
Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men.… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Why? What kind of man would pleasure his woman by hurting her.' Angus paced across the path. ''Tis a man's duty, nay,… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure,… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride,… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I used to think aged Scotch, expensive pool tables, and one-night stands were the height of pleasure. Then, my greatest guilty pleasure… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
“We don’t know yet if this girl is going to have sex tonight or not?” “She will for sure. I can smell… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
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