#pleasure

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

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. ↗

— Holly Near

#great #had #i #like #living

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#ice #just #pleasure #smart #work

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#different #every #every time #get #i

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#associations #close #cordial #equaled #felt

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#never #pleasures #take #those #tire

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am