There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Our home is our castle, our sanctuary, our haven of safety. It is where we can just be, create, and enjoy the… — Jewel Star 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
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Nonsubordination is the simple, unspectacular struggle to shape one's life. It is people's reluctance to give up the simple pleasures of life,… — John Holloway Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson 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
“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists,… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“May 20 Coming Out Of Isolation "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic… — Anonymous 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
“Arthur Less is the first homosexual ever to grow old. That is, at least, how he feels at times like these. Here,… — Andrew Sean Greer 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
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“You should ask more questions; it is good for the mind and soul. Questions are doors in the castle of knowledge. Treasure… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad… — Kevin Revolinski Copy Share Image
“The satiation level beyond which experienced well-being no longer increases was a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas (it could… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under… — William Hart Copy Share Image
“Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do… — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
