Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is pleasure without cost. So how might you make people pay?” — Christopher S. Hyatt 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
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
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
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
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
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
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
