#pleasure

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

#friend #half #having #how #pleasure

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#beneath #bite #hook #know #pleasure

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#believe #doing #doing good #every #feels

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#being #dynamic #efficiently #foot #get

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