#pleasure

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#fried #get #great #great way #i

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

#conceal #consider #employs #himself #his

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #full-moon #habits #harvests #life

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #great pleasure #incorrigible #indeed #me

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ↗

— Edward Young

#pains #pleasure

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#because #bundle #child #easy #energy