“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.” InspirationalLittlesDreamPastSufferingTurnsEvilHeavenReligiousSinPleasureKnowingGloryConsequenceLet MeSpreadMortalsBlissGood And EvilTemporaryNot KnowingAgonyBackwardsDamnationRetrospectiveGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.” LittlesStatesHappensCultureProcessPleasureConsciousnessCreativeParticularDrugSkillsInstinctThings HappenCreative ProcessMaking LoveMixturesCocktailsActs Of LoveUnconsciousness Author:Francis Bacon
“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.” WorldYearsLittlesStillsPleasureFiveTreeArmsMy FriendsAdultsLegsForestsFarmsScarMy Best FriendJungleHoodRobinsChunksGrandpaHaulLooking DownRobin HoodFloraFoliageUnsuspecting Author:Phillip Adams
“All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.” IfsLittlesPleasurePreparedDelicatePigsCartsPastriesCongruence Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.” YearsLittlesTogetherPleasureRuinedUnspoken Author:Lillian Hellman
“For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.” KnowsMenLittlesBodyPleasureFateCapableCuriousLoan Book:Jurgen Source: Jurgen
“The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.” FeelsFirstsHumansLittlesPleasureAnimalOughtHatredAimResponsePleasantDislikeDisgustingHatefulPupilsHuman AnimalAim Of EducationLike And Dislike Author:Aristotle
“Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.” PeopleLittlesDoeCulturePleasureUnderstoodBuiltRewardsWesternDiscriminationCivilisation Author:Richard Davenport-Hines