Empty Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

— Peter J. Carroll

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred,…

— Johannes Brahms

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

— Joseph Joubert

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this…

— Henry James

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the…

— Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live in indolence…

— Victor Hugo