Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it… — Martha Graham
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was… — Christopher Durang
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the… — Celia Thaxter
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all… — Bel Kaufman
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and… — Epicurus
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine… — Ernest Hemingway
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common… — Eric Hoffer
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role… — Edward Abbey
Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show,… — Lucas Malet
I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant… — Dorothy Draper
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. — Gautama Buddha
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment,… — Sylvia Boorstein
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... — Gautama Buddha
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. — Gautama Buddha
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. — Alan Bradley
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus
There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. — Joel Garreau
Truth is not always a pleasant thing. — George C. Scott
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus
The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components… — James W. Pennebaker
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by… — Heloise
You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human… — Clarence Darrow
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie

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