Hedonistic Treadmill Quotes & Sayings

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business. — Bill Medley

Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

If on a friend's bookshelf
You cannot find Joyce or Sterne
Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,
You are in danger, face the fact,
So kick him first or punch him hard
And from him hide behind a curtain. — Alexander Theroux

What you want to give most is what you want to receive most, and vice versa. — Ronald Wopereis

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. — Jane Campion

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change — John Assaraf

You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source ... Breathin'! — Walt Kelly

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. — Suzanne Vega

I do so much with these lips, I think.
I taste and touch and kiss and I've pressed them to the tender parts of his skin and I've made promises and told lies and touched lives all with these two lips and the words they form, the shapes and sounds they curve around. But right now my lips wish he would just read my mind because the truth is I've been hoping I'd never have to say any of it, these thoughts, out loud — Tahereh Mafi

I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream. — Banana Yoshimoto