“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we… — Torron-Lee Dewar Copy Share Image
“Live a real experience of love is one of the greatest pleasures of life. It feels like the soul, but to express… — Zibia Gasparetto Copy Share Image
“(...) I wanted to drink a decent glass of wine in the evening with good friends." "Sounds like a modest goal." "Yes,… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life,… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“For strength of character in the race as in the individual consists mainly in the power of sacrificing the present for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does. — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
