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Pleasures Of Life Quotes (page 4)

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. Carter Burwell
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. Maya Angelou
Oscar Wilde quote: "The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly,..."
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. Oscar Wilde
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to..."
Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may. Charlotte Bronte
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Jerome K. Jerome
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. Herman Hesse
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel... J. M. Coetzee
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Barbara Pym
Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life? Nora Roberts
Bertrand Russell quote: "Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting..."
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. Bertrand Russell
They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. William Golding
B. C. Forbes quote: "Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. B. C. Forbes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. David McCullough
Mia Maestro quote: "I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in..."
I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. Mia Maestro

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