Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
“How many unexpected, unlooked-for tiny pleasures can you list at the end of each day?” — Tammy Strobel Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning… — George and Weedon Grossmith Copy Share Image
“Life’s simplest pleasures are life’s greatest joys. Most people don’t discover what’s most important in life until they are too old to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are equally required. They are, moreover, the… — M. Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“A transient wish crossed his mind; that he could have stayed around and introduced her to the innocent pleasures of... But the… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. For instance, one has to… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
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