Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“My name,” I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. “Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but… — J.J. McAvoy Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury. — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. — Robert James Graves Copy Share Image
I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU Uncontrollable, Thoughts flow, attention decides, If there's peace, or pain!” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I've had many strike partners over the years and usually their aim is to outscore you - and take great pleasure in… — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them!… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
