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“There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.”

People Giving Humans Has Beens Different Order Names Human Beings Pleasure Awareness Buddhism Band Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.”

Giving Should Writing Made Enough Stories Imagination Pleasure Perception Spring Impression

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.”

People Knows Want Art Space Pleasure Share Objects Despair Perception Art Is Palestinian Better Life

Author:Elia Suleiman

“I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.”

Knows Mind Kind Different Ends Whole Past Voice Memories Space Pleasure Vision Boys Higher Creatures Perception Lows Mouths Passionate All Time Instant Dragons Faculty Different Kinds My Boys Blowouts

Book:Grendel

Source: Grendel

“There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.”

Real Moments Shows Pleasure Perception Regard Victim Silent Bullying Bully

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.”

Way Want Giving Years Humans May Difficult Forget Pleasure Teach Return Offers Perception Indifferent Sublime Relaxation Breeze Year One Insouciance

Author:Barry Lopez

“Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”

Pleasure Perception Delight Seeking Instant Live In The Present Perception Of Beauty

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.”

Pain Desire Pleasure Perception Pain And Pleasure

Author:Aristotle

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.”

Self Light Pain Pleasure Particular Cold Perception Hatred Heat Shade

Author:David Hume

“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.”

Men Humans Art Matter Feelings Pleasure Perception Art Is Human Life Reasonable Organs Amusement Solace

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...