Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things. — Sophia Amoruso 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
The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking.… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face… — Mazo de la Roche Copy Share Image
We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
I do think that our bodies are capable of many magical and inexplicable things that have nothing to do with reproduction. I… — Jenny Johnson Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable… — George Benson Copy Share Image
The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of… — Asaram Copy Share Image
"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
If it's a trip for pleasure, I always go with a comfortable outfit. — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
