I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has… — Augustus Copy Share Image
I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers 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
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness.… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human,… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann 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
