Quotes About Pleasure

Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

A wise man is detached from the drama of the material world because he focuses instead on the source from which all dualities of light and darkness, good and evil, pleasure and pain actually originate.

1. Dukkha Life is unsatisfactory. Pleasure in the physical world is transient. Pain inevitably follows. Therefore, nothing we experience can be deeply satisfying. There is no resting place in change.

He was convinced that Buddha had revealed a truth that every person could recognize: suffering is a fixed part of life. Fleeing from pain and running toward pleasure would never change that fact. Yet most people spent their whole lives avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure. To them, this was only natural, but in reality they were becoming deeply involved in a war they could never win.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Of course Devanney was still in his chamber. It wasn't yet noon and his cousin hadn't had the pleasure of being caressed awake just after dawn. Remembering this morning brought with it another reminder, one of how much it would hurt to lose Cassie, and how much more it would hurt if he somehow lost her to Bucksden's violence.

Your secret was not the craftsman's delight in process, which doesn't distinguish work from pleasure-- your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant: everything faded, thinned to nothing, beside the light which bathed and warmed, the Presence your being had opened to. Where it shone, there life was, and abundantly; it touched your dullest task, and the task was easy.

Dedicated to black lace thong panties, steaming hot showers, pimento-stuffed green olives and sharp cheddar cheese sliced with a credit card.

We watch television and we play music, but mostly we've found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. They both let go, laughing. "Naw," Plight said," we just play board games.

It pleases me to meet you, Valkyrie. I've heard stories." "Good stories or bad stories?" "All stories are good stories," he smiled, "even the bad ones.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.