“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.” GivingChildrenFatherPleasureSpecialOne DayTreatsAnxiousTowersChimes Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
“Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever it is that you choose to do with your life. You don't have to become something in the eyes of others, you only have to become something in your own reality. From this humble attitude flows a sweet serenity which comes naturally from personal healing and spiritual reconciliation.” InspirationalNeedsImportantRealityEyeRememberSpiritualPleasureHealingAttitudeSpecialSweetFlowHumbleYou ChooseSerenityReconciliationGlamorousPersonal Healing Book:More Love: Tender Moments Source: More Love: Tender Moments
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongEndsSometimesHardMomentsHappinessAsksGoalPleasurePrinciplesProgressAchieveSpecialWindHard WorkFoolTasksStriveFinalsHeavyAccomplishmentModeratesThrillingEuphoriaShort LivedDevalue Author:Jonathan Haidt
“Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.” ArtHomePleasureGroupsSpecialEatingChinaOccasionsCooksAccomplishmentSilverGuestsImpressFinestReservedSpecial OccasionPleasure And Happiness Author:Marcella Hazan
“Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.” WorldPleasureChristianitySpecialAncientFleshLegacyThis DayPessimismHostilityAncient World Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann
“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.” IfsThinkingHumansLongSaidFormUsedPleasureClassStudySpecialSubjectsShapesProjectsDevilOkayAgreeSuicideUsed To BeMessGentlemanSatanLong AgoInwardBangsShamefulInfantile Author:Martin Amis
“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.” PeopleRealizingPleasureSecretFailingSpecialHappenings Author:Adolf Hitler