To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.” — Annabel Joseph Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I’ll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning." - Drew Evans” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.” — Michael Easter Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Copy Share Image
It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
