Pastoral Resources

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.