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Pleasant Quotes

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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?'
Authors on Pleasant Quotes: Derek Landy Horace Marcus Tullius Cicero Seneca the Younger Daniel Handler Charles Buxton George Carlin Rainer Maria Rilke John Powell Clare Vanderpool Gloria Estefan Epictetus Ovid Arthur Hugh Clough James W. Loewen Cassandra Clare Helen Mirren Paul Kantner J. C. Ryle Lucas Malet Alexa Chung Freya Stark Jacqui Holland Robert Falcon Scott Maud Younger John Urschel Charles Bukowski Graham Norton Kate Langley Bosher Viktor E. Frankl Ashleigh Brilliant Herman Melville Charis Wilson
2.
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

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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

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Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.
Louise Hay

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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

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Truth is not always a pleasant thing.
George C. Scott

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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

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

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

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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
Seneca the Younger

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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
Vladimir Lenin

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I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
Traudl Junge

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The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Horace

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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

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To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.
Gil Fronsdal

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark

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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
Viktor E. Frankl

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It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
Kevin DeYoung

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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen

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Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
Robert Smith Surtees

31.
How pleasant it is to have money.
Arthur Hugh Clough

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A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.
Marsden Hartley

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Geniuses are not always pleasant people.
Karen Armstrong

34.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
Henry Mitchell

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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

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You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton

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I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
Deval Patrick

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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

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Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
Clare Vanderpool

40.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Charles Buxton

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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

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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

45.
It would be pleasant to be drunk.
Anne Sexton

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

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Conclusions are not always pleasant.
James W. Loewen