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“The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.”

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Author:Veronique Vienne

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

Ifs World Looks Has Beens Enough Home Joy Father Pleasure Inspiring Sadness Tomorrow Lucky Leaving Excitement Caves Carriages Miscarriage Leaving Home Father Leaving

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”

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Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

Pain Pleasure Inspiring Mental Health Sensitive

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

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Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Asks Pleasure Inspiring Let Me Give Me Obedience I Love Him Obedience To God

Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.”

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Author:Martha Stewart

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”

Giving Pleasure Inspiring Heard Quotations Poor Richard

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author