#pleas

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#complex #however #i #music #necessarily

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. ↗

— Epicurus

#did #far #i #knew #learn

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. ↗

— Epicurus

#justly #life #live #living #pleasant

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#eagerness #exist #great #honor #pleasure

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films. ↗

— Janine Turner

#films #had #i #pleasure #three

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#child #endeavored #every #parents #planet