#pleas

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

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#making-love #pleasure #respect #sensuality #sex

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#fame #pleasure #fun

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#happiness #laughter #pleasure #relationships #fun

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#alien #american #american people #competitive #entrust

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. ↗

— Helene Hanff

#debt #england #kiss #please #writers

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. ↗

— John Green

#paper #towns #pleasure

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #pleasure

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure