“You learn a great deal from pain than you will ever learn from pleasures.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't really have guilty pleasures - I like what I like. But I've seen a lot - a lot - of… — John Ross Bowie Copy Share Image
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other… — Francois Lelord Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23 — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Whose pain will go away? He who does the ‘operation’ of material [physical] pleasures; his pain will go away!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Happy are those who know how to obtain pleasures without injury to anyone; insane are those who fancy that the Almighty can… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and… — Lorraine Anderson Copy Share Image
“The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Consider the capacity of the human body for pleasure. Sometimes, it is pleasant to eat, to drink, to see, to touch, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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