Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I… — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival. — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
