Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice. — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be… — David Berg Copy Share Image
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.... — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
