#pleas

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

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

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

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

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#atrocities #committed #culinary #forgive #forgive me

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. ↗

— Lord Amherst

#easy #farming #losing #money #most

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. ↗

— Lana Wood

#i #met #never #quite #still

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #beloved #best #cannot #certainly