#pleasure

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #pain #pleasure #life

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#life

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#life #pleasure #life

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures. ↗

— Tony DiTerlizzi

#pleasure #life

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dancing #life #love #name #neil-gaiman

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#masochism #pleasure #psychopathology #sex #men

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#pleasure #art

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. ↗

— Charmian Hussey

#flowers #nature #plants #pleasure #nature

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#making-love #pleasure #respect #sensuality #sex