Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy… — Ibn Hazm 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
I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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