#pleasure

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. ↗

— Sophocles

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

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Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #dance #identity #individuality #life

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

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