#pleasure

I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #leisure #pain #pleasure #funny

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

#pleasure #reflection #intelligence

If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bravery #danger #dangerous #leadership #pleasurable

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

— Neil Gaiman

#life #pain #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

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#because #body #down #feel #guilty

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ↗

— Anne Spencer

#alone #breakfast #enough #how #husband