Best pleasure & common Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.”

Ifs Feels Facts Use Able Pleasure Common Focus Example Objects Keys Gratitude Computer Instruments Appreciation Available Cups Clock Each Day Chairs Pens Forks Eyeglasses Utensils

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

Giving Art Form Faith Pleasure Common Practice Accomplishment Intensity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“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

“If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.”

Ifs Pleasure Common Opinion Crime Ignorance Habit Democratic Vices Scales Fewer Display Brilliance Outrageous Wellbeing Vigorous Aristocracy Democratic Society Wretchedness

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come. When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance. There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.”

Mind Age Spiritual Order Pleasure Common Study Greater Teaching Divine Ocean Understood Surface Heavenly Significance Pearls Parables Too Deep

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.”

Source: A Vineyard in My Glass

“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.”

“As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.”

Men Pleasure Common Darkness Wise Miserable Vain Despise Skepticism Blindness Herds Being Wise Plunge Sceptic

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“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.”

Men Choices Three Pleasure Animal Common Objects Opposites Painful Noble Motive Pleasant Good Man Three Things Avoidance

Author:Aristotle

“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”

Made Happiness Pleasure Common Objects Taste Thousand Impression Distinction Appetite Propositions Gratification Transient Converses Gleam Pleasure And Happiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.”

Sides Pleasure Common Education Study Habit Defects Idleness Weariness

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil or pain But that the call-s to rise and cruise alone with dreams unshared Or plan alone for some far goal, for which none else has cared Or fight alone for what you hold is worth a warrior-s strife And ask no gain or fame or aught beyond the joy of life.”

Dream Pain Joy Fighting Asks Goal Pleasure Common Plans Fame Draws Gains Warrior Aviation Toil Strife Veins Joy Of Life Cruise

Author:Gill Robb Wilson

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

Source: De profundus

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Life Is Pleasure Animal Common Class Concerned Seeking Beast Avoiding Animal Life Avoiding Pain Bodily Functions Bodily Pain

Author:Saint Augustine

“Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.”

Thinking Can Do Wealth Pleasure Common Mistake Subjects Supreme Estates

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.”

“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

May Prayer Pleasure Common Study Growing Gratitude Benefits Profit Communicate Portions Delightful Boundless Psalms Constrain

Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

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