“Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.” GivingPainStrongForcePleasureGive MeCoffeeWarmthWakingUnusual Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.” GivingLongArtSelfReasonFactsStrongPleasureHealingSupportStudyEffectsExpressionHabitDisciplineCreatingIntellectualDeserveMedicinePatientEducationalMathPursuitPerformingReportsAssociationTraitsSelf DisciplineGratificationDiligenceAthleticsSelf ExpressionEducational SystemWork HabitsSelf GratificationMath And MusicPerforming MusicStudy And WorkStudying Music Author:Michael E. DeBakey
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'” IfsBelieveHas BeensMotivationalPainStrongPleasureStruggleIdentityBearsWeakEndurePainfulDelightImpressionEaseMisfortunesTormentCould Have BeenPointlessSearch For MeaningInfirmityI Am StrongCorinthiansPainful Experiences Author:Andrew Solomon
“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.” EyeDiesStrongPleasureLaughingSorrowPleaseAbidingFrailSorrowful Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.” GivingKindDoeTwoReasonEnoughFeelingsYoungPassionStrongPleasurePartyCasesGrowingCreaturesAddictionSuspectsStableOccasionalExhaustingYoung LoveLiving CreaturesDizzyVertigo Author:Robertson Davies
“I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I knew how fast he was. Being in the ring with him, he is a completely different animal. He is a beast. They call him the Beast Incarnate and that is real. Whether you are in the Octagon with him trading fists, or in the ring trading German suplexes it is on another level. It was a pleasure and I am glad I got to be in the ring with him and i think I proved to the entire world I can hang with the guy.” ThinkingWorldLongI CanDifferentRealGuyStrongPleasureAnimalLevelsLong TimeRingsGladBeastTradingFistsReally LongDifferent Animals Author:Seth Rollins
“It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.” PeopleIfsHeartSoulValuesJesusStrongSoundChristSinPleasureOpinionFireDrinkJesus ChristBlessedConvictionSavedIgnorantYearningDelightedUnbelief Author:John Bunyan
“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.” IfsWaySelfBigsStrongPleasureMovementBuddhismNewsEnlightenmentDiscoverySelf DiscoveryVery StrongUnlikelyBig News Author:Frederick Lenz
“The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.” LongArtStrongPleasureTalkingCreationPerformancesVery GoodAestheticVery StrongAnalogiesArt And ScienceCraftsmanship Author:Freeman Dyson
“Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.” ChildrenOrderStrongPleasureResponsibilityMoralTeachingHonestDecidedAbsolutesFacilityImpartScholastics Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.” MenLifeSelfStrongPleasurePayGreaterHe ManRegretConversationDemandExpectationsAngryEnthusiasmFormerAppetiteImpatientTransientDisagreeableCreditors Author:James Goldsmith
“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.” StatesFeelingsFilmYoungStrongSexPleasureUnitedUnited StatesMedicalVanityAppealsPrintReviewsSatisfyingCultPinsSurveysAmerican WomanHealth And FitnessSex AppealLibidoExhibitionism Author:Julius Evola
“Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.” IfsNeedsGivingEarthLife IsStrongPleasureTakenWeak Author:Edgar Allan Poe