#pleasures

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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

— John Petit-Senn

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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

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. ↗

— Seneca

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased ↗

— ArLeaBelle

#happiness-positive-outlook #humor #inspirational #pleasure-of-recognition #pleasures-of-life