When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
“Nature gave us one hell of an incentive to have sex in the form of the great pleasure it provides, even though… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
When Zinédine Zidane retired, he said he'd never be a manager and it wasn't in his plans. But after two years out,… — Michel Salgado Copy Share Image
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The good news is that just like pleasure can become pain with repeated use, we can also transform painful activities into pleasant… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
We've been taught, "Deny yourself pleasure." But moderation is harder because it requires really committing to balance. When I tell my trainer… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
