If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person. — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they… — Vera Chytilova Copy Share Image
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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