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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.”

“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.”

Thinking Whole Together Jobs Past Opportunity Pleasure Opinion Careers Regret Fool Anxiety Add Financial Uncertainty Panic Public Opinion Reminding Past Regrets

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.”

Today Past Time Dies Opportunity Enjoy Challenges Pleasure Magic Passing Passings Glorious Each Day Undone New Challenges Enjoy Today

Author:Ruth Carter Stapleton

“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

Men World Wells Facts Joy Evil Found Opportunity Pleasure Accepting Ready Offers Endless Unlimited Ugliness Endless Opportunities

Book:Love

Source: Love

“I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.”

Lasts Night Opportunity Pleasure New York Ambition Theater West Leaving Pursuit Excitement Amusement Advancement Pleasures Of Life

Author:Cass Gilbert

“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.”

“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.”

Mean Two Eye Opportunity Games Sports Hours Pleasure Animal Brain Moral Ought Taxes Tasks Worn Toil Relaxation Simplest Limbs Diversion Artisans Daily Tasks

Author:Horace Greeley

“Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.”

People Ifs World Years Today Opportunity Belief Pleasure Five Missing This World Years Ago Majority Myth Rage Five Years Fifty Destined Rest Of Your Life Great Opportunity

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.”

People Happens Opportunity Community Pleasure Support All The Best Best Business

Author:Chris Brogan

“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

Thinking Self Facts Mother Opportunity Pleasure Cases Achieve Identity Self Worth Bitter Developing Receiving Sense Of Self Housewife

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.”

Life Opportunity Pleasure Half Despise Neglected Pleasures Of Life

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.”

People Real Fall Actors Opportunity Pleasure Directors Falling In Love I Fall In Love

Author:Annette Bening