A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel,… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to modelI'm not sure where it's going, apart from the pleasure of making beautiful thingsI said I wasn't going… — Stella Tennant Copy Share Image
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
