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Pleasurable Quotes (page 44)

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world. John Piper
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand
Jane Austen quote: "Think only on the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure"
Think only on the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure Jane Austen
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Those who read this will not fail to laugh at my gallantries, and remark, that after very promising preliminaries, my most forward adventures concluded by a kiss of the hand: yet be not mistaken, reader, in your estimate of my enjoyments; I have, perhaps, tasted more real pleasure in my amours, which concluded by a kiss of the hand, than you will ever have in yours, which, at least, begin there. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Khalil Gibran quote: "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and..."
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Khalil Gibran
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. J. D. Salinger
Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of human values… . Socially it means the renunciation of all place-hunting, a break with the cult of the “star,” an open eye both upwards and downwards, especially in the choice of one’s more intimate friends, and pleasure in private life as well as courage to enter public life. Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and..."
...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need. Ursula K. Le Guin
Thomas Jefferson quote: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power..."
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. Raymond Chandler
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now? Elizabeth Gilbert
Bob Dylan quote: "every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and..."
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain Bob Dylan
Jane Austen quote: "I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
I have not the pleasure of understanding you. Jane Austen
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure... Gene Wolfe

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