#pleasure

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#asking #being #criticism #different #different ways

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#book #i #learned #never #old

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#greater #hear #hong #hong kong #kong

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#arrives #pain #pleasure #way

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ↗

— George Sand

#his #man #pleasure #punishment #reward

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#fans #had #i #made #many

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#better #different #does #get #older

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#between #brings #choose #courses #death