Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously,… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time…and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
