No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is to do things..which people say you cannot do..; ) — Mudumala Thomson Copy Share Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 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
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Pleasure” is different from “happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
