“You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady,… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot.… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
