Quotes About Pleasure

Beauty comes from the reflective level. Beauty looks below the surface. Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in. ~from an interview in Narrative magazine

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them, you get pleasure from their pleasure nad it makes it easy to serve. I didnt love God because i didnt know God. universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

we learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him.

Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are

We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing. We

A human brain is designed to experience pleasure when it understands something and fear or resistance when it doesn't.

El deseo de significado. Victor Frankl llevaba razón cuando cuestionó las teorías de Sigmund Freud al aventurar que el principal deseo del hombre no es encontrar placer sino sentido.

If you don't love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve. I didn't love God because I didn't know God.

in his book Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl argued convincingly that man was actually most tempted to distract himself with pleasure when his life was void of meaning.

Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.

No stinting here, not on the after-breakfast champagne.

She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose white scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze;

This is very good," I said, half a minute or so later, just as the first euphoric sparkle was starting to hit my synapses.

Dogs live in the moment. They don't think. They don't dwell on the future. They exist to meet their base needs. Eating. Sleeping. Breeding. Surviving. No worries. No regrets. Minimize effort, maximize pleasure.

Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children. He looks at the motive, principle, and intention of their actions, and not merely at their quantity and quality. He regards them as members of His own dear Son,

Recordemos que los placeres para los que viven millones de personas difieren, quizá, en su concepto de lo que constituye el verdadero placer, pero todos coinciden en tratar de obtenerlo por sobre todas las cosas.

Eve: "Keep your mind off sex" Roake: "Why? It's so happy there.

A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it.

It is a doctrine worthy only of a swine to suppose that life has…no higher end than pleasure – no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit.

Ela é gorda, bela, voraz, gulosa, indecisa e lambuzona.