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“My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.”

Giving Children Father Pleasure Special One Day Treats Anxious Towers Chimes

Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.”

Thinking Knows Want Joy Dies Pleasure One Day

Author:Dean Ornish

“It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.”

Should States Pleasure Views One Day Old Woman

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

“Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.”

May Next Pleasure Depends One Day Next Day Unstable

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.”

I Can Certain Next Pleasure Car One Day Mood Weather Drivers Disappointed Next Day

Author:Ralph Lauren

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”