The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.
People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play. . . of the old '50s type.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Because dying for God is a higher pleasure. . . than living without Him.
Always make the most of every sense; glory in all the pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.