#plea

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#any #best #chance #dream #drive

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. ↗

— Lord Amherst

#easy #farming #losing #money #most

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. ↗

— Lana Wood

#i #met #never #quite #still

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#beautiful things #being #criticizing #feel #moved

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

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#because #congress #experience #initiated #know