Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure. — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
