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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.”

Ifs Men Way Hard States Pleasure Common Accepting Lord Refuse Flesh Common Ground

Author:Saint Basil

“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

Men Should May Stills Hard Dream Past Spirit Forget Pleasure Adventure Sake Great Men Exploration Honour Explorers Mt Everest

Book:High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

Source: High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest

“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”

World Way Hard Pleasure This World Terrible Consequence Endure Painful Rings Attractive Pleasant Sensations Contemplating Worms Scratches Itching

Author:Ramakrishna

“Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.”

Hard Pain Pleasure These Days

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”