“These are the little things that people should really appreciate, simple pleasures.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Don't exchange your greatest future for some shortest pleasures of this moment. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“You really have spent too long amongst dead things and sand. People misbehave, Ben. People do … wicked things, in the name… — Jae T. Jaggart Copy Share Image
“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than… — Mohammad Qutub Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What are your pleasures and pursuits, Lord Moncrieffe?" Miss Eversea asked too brightly, when the silence had gone on for more than… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image