“We learn from our pain. But we are rewarded with pleasure." -Ash” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My idea of romance... Is... Okay. I have an idea... I think my idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.' — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
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