#pleasure

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #idea #oneself #pleasure

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #creative #feel #love #other

I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it. ↗

— Erin Moran

#am #being #days #fans #happy

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#because #bored #desires #down #enemy

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #derive #goals #i #i am

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand. ↗

— Donald Norman

#brains #go #hand #pleasure #should

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#become #close #comfort #danger #fact

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#anything #conclusion #did #ever #forth

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

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