PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Challenges will come; that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking. — Fanny Lewald Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself,… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Get Lost! It doesn't sound insulting only on week-end! If you really get lost and go exploring. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him). — John Piper Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman 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
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
