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“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.”

Men Pain Enjoy Pleasure Pay Consciousness Duty Honor Rewards

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.”

Wells Art Pleasure Consciousness Moral Intelligent Gratification

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.”

Feels Doe Moments Use Joy Artist Pleasure Emotion Consciousness Creativity Creative Anxiety Creating Scientist Satisfaction Mood Defined Contrast Gratification Accompany

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.”

Doe Important Helping Order Pleasure Consciousness Quality Components Quality Of Life

Book:Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Source: Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

“I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women. Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great literature and with an inspired teacher.”

“Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.”

Thinking Feels Persons Form Purpose Certain Enjoy Pleasure Emotion Consciousness Loneliness Tongue Fleeting Like Love

Author:Sam Harris

“Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.”

Pain Pleasure Consciousness Blur

Author:Mason Cooley

“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.”

“Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards the exterior; and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.”

Ifs Men Littles Care Pleasure Consciousness Involved Every Man Exterior Oversight

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

Causes Pleasure Consciousness Ignorance Vanity Absent Falsity Inconstancy

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.”

Mind Humans Children Use Body Joy Natural Human Beings Pleasure Consciousness Mark Entertainment Burden Primaries Adulthood Inclination Orientation

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.”

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Author:Milan Kundera