The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like the rush of going down a mountain and harnessing all that energy and all that… — Steve Bellamy Copy Share Image
Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night… — Barry Goldberg Copy Share Image
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? — Confucius Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists. — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
