Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase. — Domenico Scarlatti Copy Share Image
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Fashion is an ultimate luxury - I mean, you don't need it - so it should bring you pleasure and make you… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... — John Green Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
