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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 George Carlin Daniel Handler Charles Buxton George Santayana Ed Helms Nastassja Kinski Wilson Mizner Marsden Hartley Charles Spurgeon Deval Patrick Earl Butz Robert Smith Surtees Louisa May Alcott Anne Sexton Friedrich Nietzsche Carol Vorderman Francis Bacon Traudl Junge Joseph Addison Aldo Leopold Nora Roberts Elaine Dundy Oscar Wilde Tamora Pierce Jessica Zafra Chuck Mangione Gil Fronsdal George C. Scott Baltasar Gracian
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

8.
Truth is not always a pleasant thing.
George C. Scott

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

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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

13.
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

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

23.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

24.
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
Viktor E. Frankl

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

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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

30.
How pleasant it is to have money.
Arthur Hugh Clough

31.
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
Robert Smith Surtees

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

34.
A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.
Marsden Hartley

35.
Geniuses are not always pleasant people.
Karen Armstrong

36.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
Henry Mitchell

37.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Charles Buxton

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

48.
It would be pleasant to be drunk.
Anne Sexton

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