I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense… — Karen Katafiasz Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Geordie Shore.' I watch it, and it's just my guilty pleasure. I sit there and can't believe… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“Nature gave us one hell of an incentive to have sex in the form of the great pleasure it provides, even though… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
