Pleasant Quotes - Page 9

• I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and swindlers, but you can meet there many creative, talented and generous persons too. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Stupid, Silly, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Finding Yourself, Trying, Ridiculous

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

  Rondal Partridge

  Sarcastic, Photographer, Pessimist

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• Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Spiritual, Sweet, Character

  Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

  Helen Mirren

  Who I Am, People, Knows

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

  Kevin Hart

  Nice, Blow, Hands

  "Interview: Kevin Hart Talks ‘About Last Night,’ Being the ‘It Guy,’ and More (Opens Tomorrow)". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2014.

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• You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

  James Stewart

  Smart, Years, May

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• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Meditation, Miserable

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• I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

  Patton Oswalt

  Thinking, Kind, Hometown

  "Patton Oswalt On Comedy, Change, And What Happens If You Never Leave Home". "Weekend Edition" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 18, 2011.

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• I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Fun, Years, Ideas

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  John Philip Sousa

  Thinking, Effort, Quality

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• The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

  George Carlin

  Christian, People

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, People, Able

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• I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

  Will Davis Campbell

  Yale, Years, Three

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• Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Dream, Important, Enjoy

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• It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

  Alice Miller

  Beautiful, Lonely, Confused

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• The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

  Martin Seligman

  Past, Emotion, Pursue

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• Have you ever noticed when you're in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You'll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.

  Wayne Dyer

  Feel Better, Compassion, Impact

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 28, 2011

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• Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.

  W. S. Merwin

  Children, Thinking, People

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Drinking, Careers, Drunk

  "Gilbert Gottfried on his Amazing Colossal Podcast, Aladdin, and surviving SNL". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. January 06, 2016.

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• My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things, some of the pieces I've used there, when I first wrote them, they seemed probably very menacing, and I hear them now, and they're just kind of pleasant, if that's the word.

  Richard Meltzer

  Years, Issues, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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