Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. — Joseph Scheidler Copy Share Image
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I love this idea," Bruno says. "Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.” — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say. — Belle de Jour Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I can't begin to tell you what a pleasure it was to work with Vikram. He is such a brilliant actor and… — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures — Democritus Copy Share Image
