There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I personally make sure that my songs are all original without any technical help, and only when that happens that I get… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48]… — Barbara Gittings Copy Share Image
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction… — Saul Zaentz Copy Share Image
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Proving to my friends, family, and the people that I love that they were wrong - that in spite of my age… — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
He should have no further trouble from her, he thought in satisfaction. Surely by now she knew his dominance over her. She… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together.… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still… — Jonathan Brown Copy Share Image
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without… — Gregor Piatigorsky Copy Share Image
Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I didn't have a job in high school. Basketball was work for me; I put in enough hours that it could have… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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