Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense… — Karen Katafiasz Copy Share Image
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart. — Matthew Sharpe Copy Share Image
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. — Charles Lamb 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
I'm also lonely. I'll admit it. I go to Twitter because I'm lonely. I get my coffee in the morning, and I… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business.… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
“Stop.” She covered her breast with her own hand. “That’s no’ a healer’s touch.” His smile was sin incarnate. “Ye’ve the right… — Connie Mason Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a… — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't… — George Benson Copy Share Image
