#pleasure

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

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #great pleasure #incorrigible #indeed #me

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#lust #pleasure #love

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#cause #displeasure #go #hope #i

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#book #child #cutting #out #pictures

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#bearing #much #pain #pleasure

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#being #intellectual #issues #knowing #me

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ↗

— Buddha

#dislike #evil #fear #feeling #feelings