No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“Food is one of life’s great pleasures, and I am all in favor of pleasure. Reading is another of those things that… — Chelsea Monroe-Cassel Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood,… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well.… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
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