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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz
Music
Mind
Pleasure
Counting
Without
Human
Being
Experiences
Human Mind
Aware
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble
Rare
Seen
Pleasure
Misery
Being
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther
God
World
Pride
Pleasure
Riches
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Vikram Patel
Work
Health
People
Problem
Burden
Addiction
Prohibition
Pleasure
Moral
Give
Health Problem
Does
Reduce
Proven
Substances
Which
Many
Strategies
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Donald Trump
Work
You
Balance
Pleasurable
Pleasure
More
Instead
Make
Balancing
Trying
Stop
Interested
Them
Your
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Own
Others
Our
Pleasure
Faults
Those
Take
Had
Much
Should
Noticing
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life
Great
You
People
Say
Pleasure
People Say
Great Pleasure
Doing
Cannot
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
War
You
Nation
President
Say
Pleasure
Neighboring
Invade
Shall
Purpose
Allow
He
Make
Him
Repel
May
Whenever
Choose
Deem
Necessary
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
Amy Bloom
Happiness
World
Will
Understanding
Fall
Our
Pleasure
Sun
Faces
Adult
Knowing
Passes
Mockery
Forever
Any
Dies
Hold
Cannot
Us
Petals
Keep
Fashionable
Away
Amount
Last
Beloved
Save
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man
Looking
Enjoy
Pleasure
Out
Hoping
Some
More
Delight
Advance
Part
Particular
Look
Looking Forward
Anything
Afterwards
Less
Forward
Satisfaction
Enjoyed
Flowing
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
Good
Accident
Action
Pleasure
Out
Stealth
Know
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Good Action
Found
Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
Charles M. Schwab
Kindness
Be Kind
Men
Everybody
Pleasure
Kind
Besides
See
Fail
Importance
Because
Courteous
Always
Itself
Being
Them
Pays
Many
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Few
Pleasure
See
Obituary
Never
Read
Die
Anybody
Wanted
Notices
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
Danny Meyer
People
Vegetables
Wine
Relate
Desserts
Pleasure
Potatoes
Steak
Primal
Generous
Source
Which
Many
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
Dorothea Dix
Love
Peace
Victory
Despondency
Pleasure
Has-Been
Willow
Laurel
Poetry
Been
Branch
Branches
Mourning
To Love
Conquest
Olive
Palm
Consecrated
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte
Man
Country
Society
Ought
Pleasure
Find
Seeking
Town
Himself
Am
Cured
Quite
Sensible
Company
Now
Sufficient
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Feeling
Pleasant
Pleasure
Ourselves
Worthless
Favors
Gives
Partly
Altogether
Doing
Surprise
Us
Derive
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
Frank Butler
You
Joy
Giving
Indeed
Pleasure
Something
Get
Want
Rid
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George A. Sheehan
Happiness
Pleasure
Something
Struggling
Accomplishing
Different
Enduring
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Pleasure
More
Diving
Bottom
Up
Than
Gravel
Bring
Pearls
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.
James Howard Kunstler
Hope
Technology
Reality
National
Lust
Our
Everything
Pleasure
Abandon
Distraction
More
Toward
Days
Comfort
Narcissistic
Souls
Limitless
Cults
Mandates
Refusal
Where
Fidelity
Us
Realm
Engage
Ever
Growth
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Considerable
Pleasure
Foolish
Surprises
Often
Enhanced
Things
Inconvenience
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
Death
Me
You
World
Remember
Try
Thought
Action
Live
Our
Pleasure
Must
Seems
Between
Courses
Dying
Should
Choose
Brings
Two
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
Kenneth Lonergan
Art
You
Communication
People
Communicate
Seen
Pain
Other
Pleasure
Failing
Like
Beyond
Itself
Very
Any
Human
Want
Succeeding
Means
Your
Professional
Film
Profound
Filmmaking
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelley
Dreams
Free
Own
Pleasure
My Own
Nobody
Annoyed
Dearest
Were
Refuge
Them
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne
Alone
Me
Communication
Mind
Thought
Pleasure
Tell
No-One
Without
Does
Grieve
Much
Produced
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