You love life, because loving life brings you pleasure. But not loving yourself brings less pleasure, and more pain. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with. — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just… — Erro Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.” — Mia P Copy Share Image
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather… — David Deida Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus 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
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
