“For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.” WayBookRunningMy OwnPleasureTiesCollectionsShopsAvoidingGorgeousAvoidance Author:Peter York
“We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.” ChoicesPleasureReturnGood ThingsVery GoodCriteriaAvoidance Author:Epicurus
“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.” MenChoicesThreePleasureAnimalCommonObjectsOppositesPainfulNobleMotivePleasantGood ManThree ThingsAvoidance Author:Aristotle
“The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.” KnowsMenArtJobsEnjoyDifficultPleasureSecretEnjoymentAvoidanceCowardly Author:Alan Watts
“It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.” HumansImportantHandsPainDesireSufferingPleasureHuman ExperienceAvoidanceGraspingPain And Pleasure Author:Dipa Ma