#pleasant

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dreams #found #hard #joys #pleasant

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#mind #more #nothing #person #than

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#cold #damp #episodes #flood #hoses

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#been #cheap #despair #dream #gloom

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things. ↗

— John Jewel

#among #any #beams #beautiful #comfort

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#certain #dishonesty #endure #endures #everyday

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#digging #imagine #lives #nothing #our

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#blame #message #messenger #unpleasant

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over. ↗

— Ben Stein

#days #easy #life #money #my life