“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.” IfsHappinessPleasureDealsBuddhismEnjoyableTransientSatiation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.” WorldFeelsMadeStillsBodyWantedPurposeFeltPleasureDealsPureSolitudeRootsInventionParallelsNostalgic Author:Jean Dubuffet
“It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.” HumansLittlesHardSpiritDiesHuman BeingsPleasureDealsAcceptingCrazyLife And DeathLife DeathCheesyPleasures Of Life Book:It's Always Something Source: It's Always Something
“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.” IfsSelfSeemsPleasureDealsSacrificeAccountsDefinitionsStoresEngagedExpensiveBuyingConsumptionMysticalShrinesMerchandise Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.” WorldCountrySometimesDoneAgeBeautifulPleasureDealsKnowingSickOld AgeSomedayVery BeautifulStrangenessDislocation Author:Grace Paley
“After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.” PeopleThinkingTryingMadePlayAmericaPleasureDealsConflictSexualityRelatedWorthwhilePersecutionPuritan Author:Hugh Hefner
“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.” WantGivingSometimesLastsFunHoursPleasureDealsReaderImpressionFascinatingDevotional Author:Frederick Buechner
“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.” MenLittlesShowsEarthHeavenEnjoyDifferencesPleasurePoorDealsOpinionPovertyRichImagineAirDrinkLaborTablesHungerSatisfactionVarietyEaseMeatPleasantThirstRich ManPoor ManSoftnessHunger And Thirst Author:Thomas Sherlock
“What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.” GodAnswersPleasureDealsPowerfulWiserOmnipotencePredestination Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do a deal with him to have all the pleasures of this world. You can go to youtube and search Illuminati, and you'll see stuff you wouldn't believe about very famous musicians and their musicians that are very clearly Satanic images.” PeopleWorldBelieveSpiritualI BelieveStuffSidesCan DoPleasureDealsLordThis WorldMusicianPicksI Believe InSatanWarfareYoutubeSatanicSpiritual WarfareFamous MusicianVery Famous Author:Stephen Baldwin
“My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.” PeopleFirstsKindLittlesMightPainMovingPleasureDealsPayPeriodsDrugVersusCocaineRatiosGetting HighHangoverRecoveringMoving Away Author:George Carlin
“I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .” CountryHouseSportsHoursWhitePleasureDealsConditionsLateArmyGreenClubsDuesExcellentWhite HouseAfternoonStaffRelaxationNavyOccasionalLawnsCountry ClubsJust RealizedArmy NavyLate Afternoon Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.” PeopleNeedsRealSoulSpiritualPleasureDealsAngelSatisfactionGuidesSpiritual Life Author:Thomas Moore
“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingTryingBookSometimesStoriesFormYoungEnjoyPleasureDealsEmotionLaughingIssuesRichMysteryStyleAdventureReaderAdultsComplexesSatisfactionSuspenseNarrativeIronyRelyContradictionResolveEngagementSheerImageryAmbiguityTextureGood StoryThrillersGood Reads Author:Avi