#pleasure

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

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#cautious #injure #lives #pleasures #put

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #masochistic #music #out #people

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

How delicious is pleasure after torment! ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#delicious #how #pleasure #torment