I wont curse or hurt my enemies...i will let karma have that pleasure — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the… — Lawana Blackwell Copy Share Image
“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood,… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
