The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is. — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly:… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don't know if you've… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Airports - they're not my idea of fun at all. Some of the staff are lovely, but you do always get one… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image