#pleas

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#asking #being #criticism #different #different ways

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#feel #flirting #gentle #himself #making

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#book #i #learned #never #old

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#end #god #guidance #help #history

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#enjoy #enjoy life #great #life #pleasures

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#i #me #person #pleased #shallow

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#going #like #please #somebody #try

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. ↗

— George Santayana

#ground #pleasant #something #urged #well

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#greater #hear #hong #hong kong #kong