Quotes Tagged "pleasant"

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. ...Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life... [Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience.

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

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.