Heart Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

— Periander

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

— Christopher Hitchens

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

— Madame de Stael

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

— Colin Beavan

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

— Sei Shonagon

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and…

— Robert Blair

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating…

— Sam Harris

“The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended…

— Anonymous

“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.”

— Euginia Herlihy