#plea

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#doing #feel #filmmakers #find #had

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #man #many #pleasure #really

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

#gave #him #man #more #offer

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. ↗

— Sophocles

#constituted #man #pleasure #same #take

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

When trouble ends even troubles please. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #please #trouble #troubles

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anything #both #different #difficult #doing

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#am #any #companion #expedition #happy