“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Geordie Shore.' I watch it, and it's just my guilty pleasure. I sit there and can't believe… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've… — David Liss Copy Share Image
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if… — Horace Copy Share Image
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce 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
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs,… — Alex James Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You're the lucky one. Otherwise you'd know there's a pleasure to be had from boredom. The best kind of pleasure: it means… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
![“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he…” quote by Étienne Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/025/etienne-gilson-21565_books_when-he-malevranche-happened-to-find-des_3150950.jpg)
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