#pleasure

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round ↗

— Marcellus Emants

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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#pleasure #life

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

Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough ↗

— Calice Becker

#pleasure #trust #love

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

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

Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —!! Kyrian (Night Pleasures) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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