Quotes About Pleasant

Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant when one is not afraid to go up there; but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness.

Oh, hold on; there's plenty of pain here—but it don't kill.  There's plenty of suffering here, but it don't last.  You see, happiness ain't a thing in itself—it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.  That's all it is.  There ain't a thing you can mention that is happiness in its own self—it's only so by contrast with the other thing.  And

UN PENSAMIENTO AGRADABLE Ella era una ladrona de libros. Él asaltaba el cielo.

My life has been a pleasant one and though I should regret to leave it, it would be a regret that perhaps I should never know.

At least since the Persians and the Egyptians, pleasant floral odors, even below perceptible concentrations, may have encouraged positive moods and socially responsible behaviors among people.

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.

It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul.

Nella vita di tutti i giorni [i francesi] hanno portato al massimo grado di perfezione quell'arte che, fra tutte, è la più utile e la più gradevole, l' art de vivre , l'arte della società e della conversazione. - David Hume, The Philosophical Works

en mi salvaje independencia llevo dentro una luz espiritual que me hace amable y placentera la vida.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Life in Dehradun is far more relaxing and pleasant than life in Mumbai.

A few grass mats, some cave drawings, the heads of my enemies mounted on the wall ... it could be quite pleasant.

The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

You'd eat a plate, and call it pleasantly crunchy.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

They're all amazingly nice

The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a full life has to offer, everything that makes living pleasant.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.