Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. — Robert James Graves Copy Share Image
It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
