A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. — Celeste Holm Copy Share Image
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Variety is the soul of pleasure so dont leave your options unlooked upon... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was… — Dave Legeno Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
