Pleasant Quotes

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity.

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

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

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

"Found something?"..."No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor."

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.