If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
One has to differentiate between priorities and self-indulgence. What you have today may disappear tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
