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“True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.”

Happiness Desire Pleasure Satisfying Peacefulness

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.”

Difficult Pleasure Practice Mystery Mediums Satisfying Dedicated Providing

Author:Robert A. Lovett

“[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.”

Mind Young Pleasure Produce Cards Spokes Meant To Be Satisfying Rumble Young Minds

Author:Michael Chabon

“I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.”

Way Children House Pleasure Chaos Busy Noise Our Future Satisfying Your Future

Author:Jane Smiley

“The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.”

Believe Sin Pleasure Effort Focus Passing Passings Obedience Satan Satisfying Deceiving

Author:Sam Storms

“Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.”

Book Form Reading Pleasure Satisfying Quotations

Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.”

“The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.”