And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember...

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body...

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic,...

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 a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are...

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

You have all been very kind to me throughout the years and I appreciate that. It’s been an absolute pleasure to be able to come in here and sit down and talk to you honestly...

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.

One of the first conditions of happiness is the ability to take pleasure in other people’s happiness.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color...

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Fashion is where I make my living. I’m not knocking it; it’s a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there’s the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

I’m 38 and I’m sure that one day my passion will be less than it is today. I’m sure I’ll find less pleasure going through training and I prefer to stop when I’m still happy,...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

I’ve read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and Gravity’s Rainbow, and the Story of O. First you have to have pleasure—then pain.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the pleasures which she tasted in other company, pleasures which – while he drove home in...

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It’s pain, It’s pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

I wish I could coach 100 Willies. Coaching Willie has been a pleasure. I admit that I was a little nervous when he made those comments about being player of the year, but I love...

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure―gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile,...

You can’t have a women’s body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.

True children of God experience pleasure in giving.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, “It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I’m going, no matter...

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Let My worship be in theheart that rejoices, for behold,all acts of love and pleasureare My rituals.

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist’s faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

It has been a pleasure working for the citizens of Rock County, and I really do thank them for the support that they’ve given in the time that I’ve been here,

God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of you!

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don’t chase it when it’s gone.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse...

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.