Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth 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
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment… — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book… — Marko Djurdjevic Copy Share Image
If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy.… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
