You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Whenever there are great virtues, it is a sure sign that something is wrong.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
The old man was once young but the young is not sure that will be old.
For all men, good and true is the same. Pleasure is different for everybody.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!
“What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one’s faith!
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy
I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; most miserable the ones who enjoy the least pleasure
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.