#lea

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fortune #wealth #pleasure

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lasting #pleasure #temporary #pleasure

I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys ↗

— Larissa Ione

#pleasure

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#pleasure

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#pleasure

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! ↗

— Jill Telford

#education #learning #education

So…these Pillars of Hercules. Are they dangerous?” Annabeth stayed focused on the cliffs. “For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning—” “Non plus ultra,” Percy said. Annabeth looked stunned. “Yeah. Nothing Further Beyond. How did you know?” Percy pointed. “Because I’m looking at it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hercules #heroes-of-olympus #non-plus-ultra #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians