1.
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
but, 'Is it true?'
Charles Spurgeon
We must all teach ourselves to accept what we detest. The issue is not, 'Is it agreeable?' but, 'Is it accurate?'
2.
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
3.
I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.
Derek Landy
4.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
John Wilkins
5.
Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.
Louise Hay
6.
the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Nikki Giovanni
7.
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
Mahatma Gandhi
9.
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.
Aldo Leopold
10.
I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.
Alexa Chung
11.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
Mark Twain
12.
I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
Robert Falcon Scott
14.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
Vladimir Lenin
15.
I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
Traudl Junge
16.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Horace
17.
It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.
Maud Younger
18.
You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.
Derek Landy
19.
To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.
Gil Fronsdal
21.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon
22.
My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.
Heber C. Kimball
23.
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
24.
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
Patricia Highsmith
25.
The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
Andrew McMahon
26.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark
28.
It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
Kevin DeYoung
29.
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen
34.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
Henry Mitchell
35.
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
Graham Norton
36.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton
37.
I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
Deval Patrick
38.
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
39.
Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
Clare Vanderpool
41.
Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.
Lucas Malet
42.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
43.
You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Daniel Lapin
44.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
David Rockefeller
46.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me
Chuck Mangione
47.
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
John Powell
48.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
49.
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
Nastassja Kinski