#pleasure

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#because #before #everything #eyes #her

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#been #cave #else #enough #everything

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#nightmare #pleasure #same #them #up

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

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lie #life #moderation #pleasures #ring

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#creatures #god #greatest #his #love

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #full-moon #habits #harvests #life