Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.” — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed. — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hire women. Trust women. Let them succeed. They are a pleasure to work with. — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough… — John Proctor Copy Share Image
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes… — Proverb Copy Share Image
