Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on… — Jenna Jameson Copy Share Image
Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“But maybe it's wrong of me to complain … I'm alive after all … and I lose an enemy or two every… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures. — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. — Alone Boy Copy Share Image
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone. — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.” — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
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