Quotes of: Pleasure Keyword

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Joanna Scott

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the o...

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of G...

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

Chinese

The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out.

Chinese

Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge.

Iranian

To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open.

Iranian

Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed.

Japanese

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

The Pleasure Express

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

On the Pleasure of Hating

And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.

Willow

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

Ross Mathews

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

M. Ward

Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.

Jestoni Revealed

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughe...

Use of Weapons

Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old.

Greek

The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.

Iranian

The taste of cold water after drinking, is a pleasure that the teetotaler will never know.

Japanese