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.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.
Horace
16.
I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.
Traudl Junge
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.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon
20.
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
21.
My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.
Heber C. Kimball
22.
To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.
Gil Fronsdal
25.
It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
Kevin DeYoung
26.
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen
27.
The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
Andrew McMahon
28.
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
Patricia Highsmith
29.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark
32.
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
33.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Charles Buxton
36.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
Henry Mitchell
38.
I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.
Deval Patrick
39.
Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.
Clare Vanderpool
40.
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
41.
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
42.
Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.
Daniel Handler
43.
The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.
George Carlin
44.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
45.
Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.
Lucas Malet
46.
You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
Daniel Lapin
47.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
David Rockefeller
49.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me
Chuck Mangione
50.
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
John Powell