When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever… — Sara Rue Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I… — Heloise Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.” — Charmian Hussey Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image