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“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.”

Want Happens Games Fun Pleasure Love You Okay Having Fun Disappoint Whatever Happens

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.”

“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”

People Happens Certain Fall Pleasure Wonder Terrible Wicked Ascent Giddy

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Art Stills Happens Used Pleasure Quality Too Much Failing Discovery Sight Merit Faculty Suspects Works Of Art

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.”

Ifs Feels Mind May Happens Pleasure Lord Willing Details Miserable Denied Resigned Frame Of Mind

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.”

Ifs Wells Persons Happens Challenges Pleasure Journey Neighbor Sensitive Greatest Pleasures

Author:Fred Rogers

“The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.”

Ifs Happens Desire Given Pleasure Events Circumstances Extremes Anticipation

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.”

Doe Dream Happens Lying Sides Pleasure Things Happen Substance Dreamer Interference

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.”

People Happens Opportunity Community Pleasure Support All The Best Best Business

Author:Chris Brogan

“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page”

Thinking Way Littles Book Happens Pleasure Interesting Style Pages Surprise Sentences Things Happen Surprising

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike