#pleas

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. ↗

— Eric Weiner

#pleasure #experience

I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-forgetfulness, I again tasted Joy. ... One thing, however, I learned, which has since saved me from many popular confusions of mind. I came to know by experience that it is not a disguise of sexual desire. ... I repeatedly followed that path - to the end. And at the end one found pleasure; which immediately resulted in the discovery that pleasure (whether that pleasure or any other) was not what you had been looking for. No moral question was involved; I was at this time as nearly nonmoral on that subject as a human creature can be. The frustration did not consist in finding a "lower" pleasure instead of a "higher." It was the irrelevance of the conclusion that marred it. ... You might as well offer a mutton chop to a man who is dying of thirst as offer sexual pleasure to the desire I am speaking of. ... Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pleasure #beauty

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#fun #more #part #pleasurable #skiing

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#control #extends #extension #gives #greater

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will. ↗

— Kitty Thomas

#give #pleasure #touch #will #food

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.' ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#making #mostly #pilot #please #real

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #artist #contrary #does #everyone

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#considered #done #father #i #never

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#having #might #much #over #person