“There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.” PleasureMysteryGuidesCertaintyClueCatching Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books) Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.” MenPersonsStatesReasonPainLawDesireJusticePleasureMoralVirtueExpectationsIdealsBoundsIllBurdenGuidesArguingFixedBeastVirtuousPenaltiesUpbringingObedientChastisementIncorrigibleBeast Of Burden Author:Aristotle
“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.” WellsTogetherNaturalPleasureGoneKnowingCarAreasCornersGuidesRhythmExcitementWorking TogetherPaceClimax Author:Jackie Stewart
“Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.” MenWorldChildrenSaidProblemLightWould BeBornPleasureExistenceDarknessFireWifeSonBuddhismEthicsGuidesCodeDisgustingWearyDesertedGuide MeLight Of The World Book:Life of Christ Source: Life of Christ
“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.” LanguageBornNaturalPleasureFieldsDiscoveryGuides Author:Frances Mayes
“Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?” IfsHandsDesirePleasureStepsLandTrustGuidesSurrenderCommitDesertHands Of GodPromised LandBlessedness Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress
“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.” LifeReasonWholeLife IsPassionPleasureRocksWindPrideOceanStormWideGuidesWhole LifePilotsVesselBosoms Author:Pietro Metastasio
“[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