In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of… — Peter Bodo Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good… — Cindy Morgan Copy Share Image
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
