The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement;… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
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
It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you… — Michael Kennedy Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor.… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive… — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image