The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The pain in life is the wisdom light that could train the mind to blissfully gain from the brain of the heart… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Physical pleasure was a fucking beautiful thing, but it was fleeting. The thrill of having her curl trustingly against his chest as… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value?… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
