Quote for Today: Jack Gilbert
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this …
Quote for Today: David McCullough
Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure …
Quote for Today: Charles Duhigg
We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed …
Quote for Today: Richard Keith Frazine
…the sensations she was asking about were very pleasant; some of them were nothing short of delicious; but to know them one simply had to go barefoot. I could sense …
Quote for Today: John D. Rhodes
Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first). ―John D. Rhodes
Quote for Today: John Barrowman
I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. ― John Barrowman