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I'm in love with you, " he said quietly." Augustus, " I said." I am, " he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. .John Green
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Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.Neil Gaiman

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Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.Neil Gaiman
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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
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.E.B. White

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.W. Somerset Maugham

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.Neil Gaiman

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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.John Lubbock

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.Jane Austen

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.Rita Mae Brown

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.Unknown
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.John Stuart Mill

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You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.Debasish Mridha
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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.John Stuart Mill

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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.Peter Kreeft

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A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is aboutMichael Grant
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.George Saunders

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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?L.m. Montgomery
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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

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Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.Criss Jami
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When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus, a part of the pleasure system that correlates with feelings of joy, love, and serenity. But Lindstrom and Calvert found that this same brain region lights up when subjects view images associated with strong brands like Ferrari or Apple.Steven Kotler

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God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our design. Psalm 34:8 reads, “Taste and see that the LORD is good.Kyle Idleman

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If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.Lailah Gifty Akita

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My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.Amy Leigh Mercree
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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.Frederick Lewis Donaldson
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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

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In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.Jess Rothenberg
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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.Unknown

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.Oscar Wilde
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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)Charles Dickens
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.William Shakespeare
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When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.Epicurus
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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.Unknown
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If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)Swami Satchidananda
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.Julian Barnes

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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.Lawrence Durrell
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Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round .Marcellus Emants
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.Unknown

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People argue themselves out of their pleasuresJude Morgan

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Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.Madeleine LEngle

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Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.Marty Rubin
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He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.Mary Balogh

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Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.Gabrielle Dubois

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.Jane Austen
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.Unknown

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Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.Anthony Liccione
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We commonly confuse love with the strong emotions most often associated with it, such as joy, attachment, lust, infatuation, pleasure, pain, fear, and hope, to name a few. But, love is not a feeling; love itself is an action. There are countless emotions and beliefs that can cause us to love. Love is the willing giving of self to another living being. Love is giving the life, time, energy, and resources that we would normally give or use for our self to someone else. Love is an action that enhances the well-being of another living being.C W Newman
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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.W. Somerset Maugham
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Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love.Debasish Mridha

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There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.Philip Seymour Hoffman
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So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a manwho, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tightit seemed before, is tied tighter still.Veronica Franco

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Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures proveChristopher Marlowe
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Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'' Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.'' When are we happy?'' When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.'' What is regret?'' To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.'' What is sorrow?'' To long for the past.'' What is the highest pleasure?'' To hear a good story.Vikram Chandra
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A joy that hurts with sadnessa sadness that is pleasurablea pleasure full of terrora terror that excitesan excitement that calmsa calmness that frightens.Aidan Chambers
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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power.Andrew Marvell
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When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?Alysha Speer

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The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.Sydney Smith

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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.Anne Rice

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The best traveler is one without a camera.Kamand Kojouri

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Early sweats make up later pleasuresIsraelmore Ayivor

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Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.Lailah Gifty Akita

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Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control.Pravin Agarwal

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I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.Charles Baudelaire

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When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.Sunday Adelaja

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A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.Sunday Adelaja

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One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.Sunday Adelaja

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Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.Sunday Adelaja
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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.Michel De Montaigne

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We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.Lailah Gifty Akita

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I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.Lailah Gifty Akita

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Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.Steve Maraboli
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It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.Criss Jami

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If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.Israelmore Ayivor
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The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.Mabel Iam

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Be watchful of the dangers of pleasure.Lailah Gifty Akita

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A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.Lailah Gifty

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Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.Israelmore Ayivor

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To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.Israelmore Ayivor

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When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.Israelmore Ayivor

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Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.Israelmore Ayivor

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For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.Plato

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And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.Julian Barnes

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I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.Roman Payne

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Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.Blaise Pascal

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You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your callingSunday Adelaja
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Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.John Crowley

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Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.Wendell Berry
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God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don’t try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all pleasure. You will be amazed to find that He has perfectly and supernaturally designed you to have all your deepest needs met in HimJohn Crowder
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God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.John Crowder

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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.Edmund Burke
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Hard work pays, but not all the time! Hard work without a good sense of purpose, due diligence and a true direction and vision only leads to the ditch. Life is a battle and only those who fight well, by working hard with a good sense of purpose and direction, win! Work hard with diligence and find a good time for pleasure, for pleasure is a treasure!Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.Kamand Kojouri

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How can you be bored? There are so many books to read!Lailah Gifty Akita
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The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep. .Kilroy J. Oldster
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Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.Kamand Kojouri