Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride,… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure. — Clarence Seedorf Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In the journey of life, we pass pleasures and pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
