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But whatever I am, I know that slipperiness isn't all of it. I know now that a studied evasiveness has its own limitations, its own ways of inhibiting certain forms of happiness and pleasure. The pleasure of abiding. The pleasure of insistence, persistence. The pleasure of obligation, the pleasure of dependency. The pleasures of ordinary devotion. The pleasure of recognizing that one may have to undergo the same realizations, write the same notes in the margin, return to the same themes in one's work, relearn the same emotional truths, write the same book over and over again--not because one is stupid or obstinate or incapable of change, but because such revisitations constitute a life.
— Maggie Nelson
...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.
— jihad eltabey
Aw... don’t be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.
— Dr Susan Block
...up to no good—and pleased about it.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
— Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.
— Matthew Donnelly
Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for, the face shatters, every time.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
— Marquis de Sade, Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
— Horace, Arte poética
... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping
— Bobby Darnell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
— Bertrand Russell
From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...
— Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude
A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both.
— Emmanuel Carrère
... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.
— Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
— Barry  Webster, The Lava in My Bones
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
— Frances Wright
Take your pleasure seriously.
— Charles Eames
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.
— Cristina Moracho
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
— Frances Wright
For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
— William Shakespeare
Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.
— Bertrand Russell
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
— Thomas à Kempis
She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Sister of the Angels
I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?
— Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave
—  not to be devoid of pleasures.
No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.
— Marty Rubin
Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, "It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I'm going, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I'm wanting to see, to look for things that feel good," and the more you develop the habit of that kind of vibration-the more the Universe understands that that's who you are! And so, the more you have access only to those kinds of things!
— Abraham Hicks
What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one’s own.
— Awdhesh Singh, Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?
— Kapka Kassabova, Twelve minutes of love : a tango story
Be diplomatic and let them know how it would be a pleasure to assist them in any way you can
— Irak. ibrahim Hussain Didi
Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.
— William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.
— Pema Chödrön
Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?
— Edward St. Aubyn, Lost for Words
He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.
— Lexxie Couper, Steady Beat
LIKING WHAT YOU DO IS PLEASURE, DOING WHAT YOU LIKE IS PASSION.
— Hansrajvir
सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि।प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति॥॥३- ३३॥इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ।तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ॥॥३- ३४॥`Each is prone to follow his nature,His senses stormed by earthly pleasure,Submit not to them they be your foe,Else you will reap what ever you sow.’ 3. 33-34
— Munindra Misra, Bhagwat Gita - Its Essence
If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Souls Cry
Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he ignored it. Not tonight; tonight was for other pleasures.
— Isabelle Rowan, Ink
When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he had in doing so". Those who never put down a book of erudition, science or philosophy, to catch their breath, so to speak, and recover from the strong emotion they experience, certainly ignore of of the most exquisite pleasures of intellectual life.
— Étienne Gilson
When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as this gust of feverish agitation that sweeps over us from time to time. For then the die is cast, the person whose company we enjoy at that moment is the person we shall henceforward love. It is not even necessary for that person to have attracted us, up till then, more than or even as much as others. All that was needed was that our predilection should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled when — in this moment of deprivation — the quest for the pleasures we enjoyed in his or her company is suddenly replaced by an anxious, torturing need, whose object is the person alone, an absurd, irrational need which the laws of this world make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage — the insensate, agonising need to possess exclusively.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they allow themselves for a moment to enjoy it they endeavour to impersonate, to identify with, the wicked, and to make their partners do likewise, in order to gain the momentary illusion of having escaped beyond the control of their own gentle and scrupulous natures into the inhuman world of pleasure.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
— Washington Irving
I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.
— Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp
It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.
— Erik Bundy, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.
— Andy Lane, Slow Decay
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.
— Georges Bizet
Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.
— Sara Sheridan, The Pleasure Express
The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.
— Mia P
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.
— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.
— Johann Joachim Becher
Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.
— Marty Rubin
Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint.
— Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us.
— Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.
— André Gorz, Letter to D: A Love Story
The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the pleasure or achievement quotient. It is possible to use even cooking, clothes, cosmetics and housekeeping for fun. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. In these cases spontaneity means rejecting the norm, the standard that one must live up to, and establishing a self-regulating principle.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.
— Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.
— Stephanie Julian, By Private Invitation
Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.
— Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood
The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.
— Karen Essex, Dracula in Love
And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.
— Julia Hoban, Willow
Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.
— Cecelia Ahern, One Hundred Names
There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.
— Charmian Hussey, The Valley of Secrets
Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.
— Portuguese Proverb
You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.
— Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World
There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people because they associate moneywith pleasure. But the true enjoyment of money comes in part from theearning of it, which involves skill and challenge.Watching television is usually done for pleasure. That's why so fewpeople can remember (or make use of) any of the 30 hours of televisionthey have watched in the past week.
— Steve Chandler
Women are pleasured treasures.
— Habeeb Akande
The stoic contemplates fallen leaves
—  the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.
— Stephen King, Duma Key
...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
— Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
Why? What kind of man would pleasure his woman by hurting her.' Angus paced across the path. ''Tis a man's duty, nay, his privilege, to give his woman all the pleasure she can bear. She should be panting and writhing with pleasure.'Emma remained silent, staring at him. Did she not believe him?He walked toward her. 'A real man would take all night if need be to make sure his woman was fully sated. She should be screaming that she canna endure any more.'Emma's eyes widened.'It should be a man's greatest pleasure to see his woman shuddering in the throes of passion.'She took a deep breath and shifted her weight from one foot to another.He paced back and forth. 'Only when she is begging for him should a man see to his own needs. And he should never, ever harm her.' He stopped in front of her 'Am I totally wrong in this?''No,' she squeaked.
— Kerrelyn Sparks, Be Still My Vampire Heart
They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara)
— bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work
Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.
— Benoît Duteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette
Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.
— Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.
— J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome
He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. 'May I give ye pleasure?'Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But his voice sounded gruff and his appearance was that of an untamed barbarian. She grabbed handfuls of his hair and pulled his head close to hers. 'Make me scream.'His eyes gleamed hotter. 'Ye will. Many times ere the night is over.
— Kerrelyn Sparks, Be Still My Vampire Heart
It happened on a Valentine night.Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary. It was a night of mixed feelings and inner conflict. In her flesh she felt walking on liquid gold; but in her mind, heart and soul she could not help but hate herself for partaking of this “forbidden fruit” of pleasure. Not long was the thrill gone that her soul went sinking in the quick sands of condemnation, “did you have to do it?
— Moffat Machingura
The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.
— Isra
What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
— Cassandra Clare
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
— Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories
It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 
— Ruth Harris
I want us to cool down for a while before we end up on horses' said Scully.'What?' Hank asked.'A definition of confusion.' Mulder explained, hands clasped behind his head. 'He jumped up on his horse and rode off in all directions.' He winked. 'Scully likes wise sayings like that. She hoardes fortune cookies you know.
— Charles Grant, The X-Files: Goblins
Can a broken cisterns hold water?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Is life not more important than anything in this world?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.
— Amy Bloom
My son, do not forget your father's instructions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God command the sun to rise every new morning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is like a precious pearl.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Those who believe in quality produce quality goods.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Smile more.Laugh more.Love more.Shine more.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Although, we were trampled, our spirit sustains us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Feeding a lion will never make him your friend.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We can possess great land by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is the crow of the cock that announced the break of the dayMeaning: It is good to act in time…ik
— Ikechukwu Joseph, The Restless Buttocks and the Stinger Ant: A New Collection of African Proverbs
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
— Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
Hard roads are not opened by themselves
—  they are opened by some brave people!
In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Time passes, but memories linger.
— Eddie Stack, The West
The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings
—  so are the most stupid
Everyone spends money freely that is freely given.
— B.C. Chase
Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
We must know how to properly manage the abundance of God’s riches that He will give to those who are ready to establish His Kingdom on this earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Crowns are hourly tumbling.
— A.H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle
God's Kingdom abideth forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are the salt to preserve the truth of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
I acknowledge that the kingdom of God is with me
— Sunday Adelaja
Gathering together of believers helps to be equipped to extend God’s kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Interacting with you should give answers to specific kingdom questions
— Sunday Adelaja
To be involved in the seven spheres of life is to extend kingdom virtues
— Sunday Adelaja
You are the agent of the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
To redeem your territory for the kingdom is to identify your territory
— Sunday Adelaja
Love is the climate of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the gospel of the kingdom that makes the difference.
— Sunday Adelaja
The churches are preaching miracles and not gospel of the kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
Jesus brought the kingdom and preached what he brought
— Sunday Adelaja
Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
The shining forth of God’s kingdom is a sign of restoration
— Sunday Adelaja
To be a role model of the kingdom priority is for your lifestyle to speak it
— Sunday Adelaja
The priority of the kingdom is the greatest message
— Sunday Adelaja
To demonstrate kingdom principle is to show powerful influence
— Sunday Adelaja
The kingdom of God is here
— Sunday Adelaja
Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only
— Sunday Adelaja
A king and his domain results in a kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
The kingdom of God is his domain and territory where God rules as king
— Sunday Adelaja
To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds
— Sunday Adelaja
Every movement based on the kingdom principles brings a positive turn around
— Sunday Adelaja
To seek first the kingdom of God is not to forfeit divine direction
— Sunday Adelaja
To seek God’s kingdom is to discover its essence and totality
— Sunday Adelaja
To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them
— Sunday Adelaja
Kingdom involves a king and his influence over a domain
— Sunday Adelaja
To be successful is to be a carrier of kingdom in every life pursuit
— Sunday Adelaja
The content of the kingdom love you have make others observe you
— Sunday Adelaja
To have affluence is to spread kingdom principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Disrespect for life is a direct reflection of violating the laws of the kingdom of love
— Sunday Adelaja
The Laws Of The Kingdom Of God Are Programmed Within Every Person
— Sunday Adelaja
You Are Where You Are So To Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
To Enjoy Satisfaction Of Purpose Is To Submit To Eternal Principles Of The Kingdom Of God
— Sunday Adelaja
To Extend Kingdom Principles Is To See Its Lifestyle Manifest
— Sunday Adelaja
The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God Are Sealed Are Sealed Into Your Moral Awareness
— Sunday Adelaja
You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Seek First God’s Kingdom And His Righteousness
— Sunday Adelaja
To be well trained is to be trained in a kingdom dimension
— Sunday Adelaja
To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles
— Sunday Adelaja
To establish God’s kingdom is to understand its prototype
— Sunday Adelaja
To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Rebuke her/him who rejects the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Kingdom laws cannot be broken
— Sunday Adelaja
Kingdom laws are the same for everyone
— Sunday Adelaja
You are born with the kingdom laws programmed into your being
— Sunday Adelaja
To deny kingdom realities is not to pay the price
— Sunday Adelaja
To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system
— Sunday Adelaja
Necessity will reign if the domain of kingdom love is realized
— Sunday Adelaja
Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love
— Sunday Adelaja
The sword was not the kingdom, he says.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A kingdom, or this?
— C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince
Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
The Orthodox liturgy begins with the solemn doxology: "Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages on ages." From the beginning the destination is announced: the journey is to the Kingdom. This is where we are going- and not symbolically, but really. In the language of the Bible, which is the language of the church, to bless the Kingdom is not simply to acclaim it. It is to declare it to be the goal, the end of all our desires and interests, of our whole life, the supreme and ultimate value of all that exists. To bless is to accept it. This acceptance is expressed in the solemn answer to the doxology: Amen.
— Alexander Schmemann
I just started watching KingDom Hospital series by Stephen King - Pretty Interesting Film. I just continue watching the series 11.22.63 incrediable film. It's wonderful that you can go in the past, who doesn't want to do this?
— Deyth Banger
By having the Holy Spirit inside us, we can spread the Kingdom of God wherever we go
— Sunday Adelaja
The kingdom mentality should be discovered, cultivated and consciously guide the way of life
— Sunday Adelaja
To establish the kingdom of love is to live in dominion
— Sunday Adelaja
For God’s kingdom to be established there is a prototype
— Sunday Adelaja
Mankind’s assignment is to extend the kingdom of love throughout the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Each of us was saved by God not only to enjoy the kingdom of God but also to have a victorious life here on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world.
— Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire
It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view.
— Sunday Adelaja
Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you do not contribute to the Kingdom, you are not a grateful citizen of the Kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Everything that God gives to us is to be used for the establishing of His Kingdom here on earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second
— Sunday Adelaja
When we were still living in the world of sin God already saw us as saved citizens of His kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
God is interested in preserving the resources of His Kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
The Kingdom of God should be the main goal of our financial investments.
— Sunday Adelaja
I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.
— Jodi Meadows, The Orphan Queen
Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
The kingdom is often limited to the hearts of the regenerate, heaven, or the eternal state. This virtually denies that the messianic kingdom has anything to do with this present earth. In contrast to this tendency, Scripture makes it abundantly clear that this earth, although not the source of the kingdom, is a part of the kingdom. Christ's messianic authority and reign extend over all of heaven and earth (Matt. 28:18), and He is in the process of subduing all of His enemies, whether in heaven or on earth (1 Cor. 15:25).
— Keith A. Mathison, Postmillennialism
Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.
— Elizabeth George, Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God , find something that you can do , at-least even going to church is one of them
— Alinani joe
All leadership in the Kingdom is by example.
— Adam LiVecchi
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...
— Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
The grand castle in Cartigo, the capital city of Cierith, stood high against the full moon and cast a heavy shadow across the city. The forest surrounding the city whispered eerily throughout the night, and the townspeople bolted their doors shut in fear of the soldiers who patrolled the streets looking for an excuse to arrest someone. The man responsible for this tyranny, on the other hand, sat comfortably on his stolen throne and ruled the land with an iron fist.
— Brittany Comeaux, Deliverance
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be denied nor forgotten, but neither should they be worshiped. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. And where men worship these things and abase themselves before them, there evil breeds; there places are made in the world where darkness gathers, places given over wholly to the Ones whom we call Nameless, the ancient and holy Powers of the Earth before the Light, the powers of the dark, of ruin, of madness… I think they drove your priestess Kossil mad a long time ago; I think she has prowled these caverns as she prowls the labyrinth of her own self, and now she cannot see the daylight any more. She tells you that the Nameless Ones are dead; only a lost soul, lost to truth, could believe that. They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
Oh, really? Do you wake up heaving from bloody dreams thatpromise destruction like some crazy street guy forecasting theApocalypse? Did you slam a door in your dad’s face hours before he died?Does everyone, cops included, think you’re a pestering loon ’cause‘accident’ doesn’t sit right with you, nor the many other freakouts, likethe car that keeps showing up on your street, with someone sitting in it,doing like, nothing? No? Oh no? Didn’t think so. Life sucks for everyone.Jump or deal with it.
— Courtney Vail, Kings & Queens
Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).
— James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ
We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.
— Darin Bradley, Noise
Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian c
— C.J. Sansom, Revelation
She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.
— Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.
— Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
Nuclear weapons have only been used twice, both times in the war against Japan. In each case it was used by the United States during World War II. The first was used on August 6, 1945, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and the second was dropped three days later over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The two bombs resulted in the deaths of nearly a quarter million people! Recently I have heard it said that since we have the second largest arsenal of nuclear bombs, we should use them to teach North Korea a lesson and reduce tensions. Perhaps we are the ones that need to learn a lesson, so let me start by saying that since these first two bombs that have been used in anger, over two thousand tests have been conducted and that it was Russia that tested the largest bomb ever detonated. On 30 October 1961, Russia which was then the Soviet Union, detonated what was called the Tsar Bomb, a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons which is more than 3,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.Are we and our leaders insane? It is only the “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” of which we are a member that can reduce the spread and possible the use of nuclear weapons. Now with North Korea being a player, its effectiveness has been questioned and we are on the brink of engaging in a contest that threatens to kill 2,000,000 people in the first day. Many of these people are American military personnel and their families stationed in in Seoul, South Korea. Following any initiative on our part, including the taunts we are making, all bets will be off and there is the possibility that other countries will see the United States as the enemy that has to be stopped!
— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."
Ignorance leads to destruction.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
People tell me not to cook, drive, or touch anything for the sake of world peace.
— Namjoon
The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Torment
If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door
— Sunday Adelaja
When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions
— Sunday Adelaja
Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firmaments. As a logical superstructure is built upon each, there follow clashes of incommensurable modes of feeling and thought. Then despair can enter through the rifts. In such cases, a person may be obsessed with destructive joy, dislodging the whole artificial apparatus of his life and starting with rapturous horror to make a clean sweep of it. The horror stems from the loss of all sheltering values, the rapture from his by now ruthless identification and harmony with our nature’s deepest secret, the biological unsoundness, the enduring disposition for doom.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
My kitty wishes to engulf you within her darkened delta of destruction.
— Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way
Do not become attached to anything that can destroy you in the course of time.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Our fate liesin the handsof the things we loveand sometimesthe things we loveare the thingsthat lead usto the fatal destructionof ourselves.
— Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly
To love is to destroy, and to be the one loved is to be destroyed.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
She was the death of me,the beginning and the end.And I never understood her,for how could someoneSo beautiful be the causeof so much destructionafter all.
— Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly
Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.
— Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story
I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.
— Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone
The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal
— Darren Shan, Bec
One can always find hands for a work of destruction.
— André Gide, The Counterfeiters
However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.
— W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.
— Criss Jami, Healology
To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.
— Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight