Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
