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Letter "P" » Pleasure
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«My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.»
«Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.»
«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Effort,
Government,
Mankind,
Nature,
Pain,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
confirm, demonstrate, pain and pleasure, sovereign, subjection, throw off
«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Choice,
Death and dying,
Living,
Pleasure,
Thought
| Keywords:
courses
«Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.»
Author: Tony Benn
(Politician)
| About:
Embarrassment,
Life,
Photography,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
embarrassment, embarrassments, photography, The Embarrassment
«Novelty is the great parent of pleasure»
«Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Achievement,
Life,
Pleasure,
Success,
Wishes
| Keywords:
affords, difficulties, forming, gratified, gratifies, one-step, passing, seeing, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, wishes
«Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is»
«I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
pleasures, substituted, substitutes, substituting, wander
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