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Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
I had a fantastic time working on 'Twilight.' I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.
I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.