#plea

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about ↗

— Michael Grant

#pleasure #truth #life

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. ↗

— Tibor Fischer

#life

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. ↗

— Seneca

#how #never #nothing #pleasant #reflect

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures. ↗

— Tony DiTerlizzi

#pleasure #life

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humour #love #skulduggery-pleasant #love

The smile, the look, tugged at Eleanor's heart. Even in the fleeting glance, she'd seen great love in Ian's eyes, his determination to finish this letter and send it to Beth so she could enjoy decoding it. A way to tell her sweet nothings that no one else could understand. Private thoughts, shared between husband and wife. ↗

— Jennifer Ashley

#love

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is longer than eternal. And this joy is owing to the presence of God, not the accomplishments of man. Therefore, if God wants to love us infinitely and delight us fully and eternally, he must preserve for us the one thing that will satisfy us totally and eternally; namely, the presence and worth of his own glory. He alone is the source of full and lasting pleasure. Therefore, his commitment to uphold and display his glory is not vain, but virtuous. God is the one being for whom self-exaltation is an infinitely loving act. If he revealed himself to the proud and self-sufficient and not to the humble and dependent, he would belittle the very glory whose worth is the foundation of our joy. Therefore, God's pleasure in hiding this from "the wise and intelligent" and revealing it to "infants" is the pleasure of God in both his glory and our joy. ↗

— John Piper

#faith #glory #god #joy #pleasure

The right thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you feel something for me that's remotely close to what I feel for you. I've asked only for a single grain of sand from you, Persephone, while I'm the whole fucking beach at your feet... ↗

— Linda Robertson

#johnny #pleas #love

Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse ↗

— Abayasinha

#past #people #sad #unpleasant #love

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#pleasure #art