“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.” ThinkingKnowsEnjoyPleasureEconomyTragedyGratefulSacredGood ThingsPossessionConsumersContemplationAcquireConsumerismPossessingOverconsumptionUnspeakable Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?” WorldFeelsHeartUseLightOrderEnergyPleasureBrainGratitudeGratefulImpulseOur WorldVibrationsElectricalNature Beauty Author:Louis Schwartzberg
“The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.” LooksLongHas BeensLightMemoriesPleasureSunSeaStageRiversGratefulFishesGladSettingBoatSettingsEnjoymentLakesFishingReviewsBe GratefulLitRadiantPleasures Of LifeAnglers Author:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.” IfsHas BeensMomentsMightAbleFacesPleasureExampleSeriousProudDespairGratefulIntenseSensitivePeculiarHopelessnessDwarfsDwarvesPredicaments Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would wait for a chance to stand near the table where the great wits were trading witticisms as a spectator sport because it was that good. They were that on fire and there was no product. They didn't write anything down. It was just the pleasure of engagement with the moment. I think that's my kind of ideal of how I live.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindMomentsSportsWaitingChancePleasureGratefulWitTrading Author:David Salle
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.” RealityEarthHappinessSuccessJoyChoicesFallHeavenWomenPleasureSecretFocusOur LivesMissingGratitudeIllusionConsciousGardenGratefulPursuitAbundanceEmpoweringThankfulnessParallelsFamily FriendsThankful GratitudeHeaven On EarthGratitude And ThanksThankfulness And GratitudeWastelandAttitude Of GratitudeSecret GardenGratitude For HealthGratitude For WorkThankfulness For LoveSpiritual GratitudeJoy And GratitudeGratitude For FriendsParallel LivesGrateful And ThankfulAbundance Of LoveBringing JoyLack Of Gratitude Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.” ShouldLawLanguagePleasureWonderfulResearchDeserveLogicMiracleMathematicsGratefulWidePhysicsCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBranchesBe GratefulOntologyLaws Of PhysicsAppropriateness Book:Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses
“Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.” PeopleMenSpiritPleasureMissingGratitudeCapacityPraiseInfiniteGratefulGrantedBe GratefulLiftingMissing Out Author:Aldous Huxley
“Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.” GivingDoeHelpingFeelingsPleasureTroubleGratitudeComfortGratefulContrastFeeling HappyHappy And Grateful Author:Maimonides
“All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.” FirstsNextWaitingImaginationPleasureNovelSourceReaderGratefulSatisfactionSuspenseThrillersKnowledge Experience Author:Elie Wiesel