#plea

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#along #dead #easy #enough #everything

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. ↗

— John Wilkins

#lives #make #mind #pleasant #thoughts

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#commercials #executives #fast #forward #getting

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#alive #breeze #crisp #drunk #drunken

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growth #happiness #happy #neither #nor

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #come #come and go #could #depression

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. ↗

— Charles Williams

#getting #good #good people #people #pleasant

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. ↗

— Sei Shōnagon

#life #literature #pleasure #life

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. ↗

— Yanni

#everybody #going #into #just #me