The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience. — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode. — Jane Elliot Copy Share Image
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
“Problem solving is hunting. It's a savage pleasure and we're born to it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown Copy Share Image
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. — Simon May Copy Share Image
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day. — Ronan Keating Copy Share Image
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him). — John Piper Copy Share Image
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it — Clara Ortega Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
