Pleasure Quotes
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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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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.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.
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It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
