#pleas

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fortune #wealth #pleasure

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lasting #pleasure #temporary #pleasure

I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys ↗

— Larissa Ione

#pleasure

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#pleasure

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#pleasure

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables. ↗

— Derek Landy

#cooking

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.... ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#charity