True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work:… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing… — John Green Copy Share Image
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Her pleasure was his pleasure and watching her above him receive so much joy from what his body could do to her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“This beautiful body, sweetness? It’s made for pleasure. It’s singing to me, telling me what it wants and needs. Those other idiots… — Ella Fox Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay 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
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
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
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
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
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
