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“Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.”

Giving Trying Character Evil Next Realizing Pleasure Yield Next Time Defects Transient Try Your Best Defects Of Character

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

Ifs Needs Humans Grows Causes Realizing Pleasure Brain Comfortable Shots Empty Fundamentals Terror Satisfaction Urges Housewife Full Potential Nameless Schizophrenic Clinicals

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.”

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.”

Earth Realizing Pleasure Deserve Environmentalist

Author:William Safire

“Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.”

“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Enough Helping Can Do Realizing Pleasure Careers Too Much Cutting Materials Relax

Author:Ramsey Campbell

“That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.”

Thinking Needs Kind Important Matter Artist Realizing Pleasure Development No Matter What Painter

Author:John Currin

“It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.”

Inspirational Realizing Pleasure Attraction Law Of Attraction Expansion Exhilarating

Author:Esther Hicks

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.”

“What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.”

Realizing Pleasure Materials Capacity Seeking Fulfillment Enjoyment Exhausted Decrease

Author:Alex Campbell

“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.”

People Realizing Pleasure Secret Failing Special Happenings

Author:Adolf Hitler