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“The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.”

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“Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.”

Work Pleasure Leisure

Book:Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

“For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.”

Life Pleasure

Book:Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome

Source: Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome

“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.”

Pain Pleasure Pride Humiliation

Book:The Palace of Love

Source: The Palace of Love

“Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.”

Inspirational Happiness Joy Peace Pleasure Prosperity Satisfaction Well Being Good Life

Book:Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

Source: Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

“Ακόμη δε συνάντησα κανέναν που να αγαπούσε την αρετή περισσότερο από την ηδονή.”

Philosophy Pleasure Virtue Chinese Philosopher Confucius

Author:Κομφούκιος

“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”

Philosophy Creative

Book:The Ego and Its Own

Source: The Ego and Its Own

“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.”

Pain Pleasure Ethics

Book:The Society of S

Source: The Society of S

“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.”

Pleasure Memory Remembering

Book:Out of the Silent Planet

Source: Out of the Silent Planet

“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.”

Suffering Pleasure

Author:Aldous Huxley

“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.”

Pain Pleasure Instant

Book:Decades

Source: Decades

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