The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.… — William Martin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
“Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't… — Andy Lane Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
His head is busy moving between my parted thighs. He makes low purr-like sounds between my legs and is so surprisingly ravenous… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it… — Ellen Buckingham Mathews Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You on your way out?" Jace nodded. "Dont want to overstay our welcome." "What welcome?" Magnus asked. "I'd say is was a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Last night, I repeated your name like a mantra before falling asleep. Somehow the simple pleasure of uttering your name, and the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
