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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.… — Chris Hadfield
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,… — John Donne
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. — Stanislaw Lem
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the… — Pope Francis
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any… — Unknown Author
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — Ludwig Feuerbach
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days… — Marcel Proust
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral… — Martin Seligman
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate… — Robert Greene
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ... — Umberto Eco
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but… — Michel de Montaigne
The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both… — Joseph Addison
To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. — Jane Rule
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower — John Bunyan
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in… — Gerolamo Cardano
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and… — J C Ryle
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the… — John Flavel
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life. — Julia Child
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable… — Samuel Rogers
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Unknown Author
Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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