Doing things Quote by Debra Granik

“Though people in all cultures and eras have felt the same type of pleasures and pains, the meaning they have ascribed to their experiences…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into…

— Sam Harris

“wholesome activities practiced in harmony with nature.”

— Bri Maya Tiwari

“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,…

— David Graeber

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a…

— Octavia E. Butler

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

— Agnes Repplier

“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with…

— Bertrand Russell

“Yet scientists have found that the more we experience any pleasure, the more we become numb to its effects and take its pleasures for…

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

“Show up for collective moments of joy and pain so we can actually bear witness to inextricable human connection. Women and men with the…

— Brené Brown

“We have been cut off from our souls in the West, and because romantic love has become our religion, we think we can find…

— Sarah Bartlett

“We each want nothing more than to live for the moment. Nature hardwired us perpetually to follow the call of the wild, cull all…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are…

— Mark Twain