Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Copy Share Image
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours. — Halsey Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
