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
I'm losing my mind without you.” His lips were gliding down my neck, his tongue stroking over my racing pulse. He sucked… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
“Hygge is evoked in situations where there is nothing to accomplish but letting go to the present moment in a way that's… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the… — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music. — DaBaby Copy Share Image
“Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. — Martial Copy Share Image
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward.… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.” — Brian Castro Copy Share Image
There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact! — Louis Sabin Copy Share Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
