Pleasant Quotes

896 Pleasant quotes by 655 unique authors

Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of… — Charles Lamb
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen
There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothingÂ else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. — Charles Bukowski
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

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