723 Pleasure Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. Shane MacGowan

Me Song Writing Else Pleasure Someone More Gives Sing Hear Than Actual

What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite. Shawn Achor

Happiness Happy People Joy World Better Better World Fighting Think Pleasure Exact Exact Opposite Finding Push Blind Make Because Does Opposite Been Afraid Hard Keep Now

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. Shawn Colvin

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure. Shepard Fairey

Me Think Gave Pleasure About Something Inspired Reach Pieces Make Audience How Were Just Want Wanted Much

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. Shirley Temple

Change Pleasure Would Had Over Anything Again Working Paid

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. Sigmund Freud

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully. Sigourney Weaver

Saying Try Wish Too Say Pleasure Guilty Guilty Pleasure More Had Goal Yes Vice Less Fully Many Things Here

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Simone Weil

Dreams Pleasant Pleasure Joys Real Test Hard Rough Found Belongs

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them. Siri Hustvedt

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. Siri Hustvedt

Happiness Family Nature Me Everyone Pleasure Never Had Idea Come Sport Occurred Where Might Skiing Fun

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. Sloane Crosley

Time Reading Shoes Adept Pleasure Airplane Definitely Airport Touching My Time Area Foot Removing Rediscovered Surface Am Least Sitting Painfully Large Now Floor Amount

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure. Sofia Vassilieva

Work Pleasure Acting

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists. Sophie Hunger

Today Conflict School Invention Finished Took Everything Way Pleasure Find Some Invented Point Shape Had True Nobody Identity Accepting Been Exists Realised Really Initially Suddenly Fundamental Thing

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. Sophocles

Words Pleasure Some Miseries Forgetfulness Even Present Bring

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. Spalding Gray

Enjoy Way Pleasure Alive Logic Stay About Take New Person Personal Done New Yorkers Decipher Place Fascinating Whole Each

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through. St. Lucia

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. Stanley Kubrick

Book School Old Pleasure Never Until Read Learned Years Anything

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal

I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award. Stephanie March

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. Stephen Greenblatt

Truth Pleasure About Shakespeare He Know Himself Gets Maybe Interest Meaning Then Certainly Eventually Start

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