People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses. — Louis Aragon 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. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Live your best life! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can't mix business with pleasure. Unless you're a whore cause then your business is pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being… — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The pain in life is the wisdom light that could train the mind to blissfully gain from the brain of the heart… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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