Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
Well, Kajol's a lovely lady! She's a pleasure to work with and I really enjoy her company! She has the ability to… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it… — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
