“If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.” — Tania Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Did groupies ever interest me? No. I'm a pleasure seeker, and I like going bananas, but that's never appealed to me. I… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president, but they often have terms that transcend partisan transfers of power at the… — Stephen Farnsworth Copy Share Image
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of… — Jonathan Silverman Copy Share Image
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. — William Feather Copy Share Image
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human,… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
