#plea

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#being #committed #enriching #focus #genuine

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately

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

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. ↗

— George Ade

#neighbors #pleasant #themselves #unto #your

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#dancers #draining #getting #into #mentally

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