Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders is, 'End practice on a happy note.' I want the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At last some time for pleasure trips And do what you want to do The time to just take your time It's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
