Pleasure Quotes - Page 29

• The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Light, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.427, Manonmani Publishers

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• I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

  Jay McInerney

  Vices, Lucky, Genes

  " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Historical Value

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Thinking, Refuse, Moralist

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• Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

  Irving Penn

  Simple, Daylight, Equipment

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• If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Negative Experiences

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• 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.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Attachment, Next Day

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• And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

  George Sand

  Sacrifice, Mind, Earth

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• Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

  Francis Chan

  Heart, People, Trying

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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• Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

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• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  Karl Blossfeldt

  Noble, Source, Educate

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• To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Responsibility, Mean, Together

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• Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

  Jackie Stewart

  Knowing, Car, Working Together

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• The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Moving, Past, Night

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• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Childhood

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

  Marc Anthony

  Romance, Way, Fans

  "Marc Anthony on life, music and being married to Jennifer Lopez". Interview with Gisela Orozco, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 01, 2010.

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• All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Entertainment, Reading For Pleasure

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• It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Character, People

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

  Solange Knowles

  Believe, Artist, Marketing

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.

  Muriel Barbery

  Adventure, Simple, Garden

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• Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Years, Youth

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