“Decide to be happy under all conditions, let happiness be your habit.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood… — Lodovico Dolce Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free. — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
I see that you’ve had the non-pleasure of meeting my sister.Jordo, this is Rylann Pierce.” Jordan raised an eyebrow pointedly at Kyle.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me.… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I’m sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But i understand your feeling. I… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
