“The Greatest Pleasure & The Greatest Pain exists in a relationship.” — Dharmendra U Copy Share Image
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Focusing on being kind and helpful is more than just a tiny pleasure; it adds a tremendous amount of joy and meaning… — Tammy Strobel Copy Share Image
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who… — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Understand the importance of Reason in life, cause its reason only that lets human beings participate in life, to be human is… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now,… — Leo Babauta Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
