Pleasurable Activity Quotes

#1. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. 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

#3. On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

Tom Rath

#4. The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Lisa Lucas

#6. The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Who has more pockets than a magician?
A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's.

Ray Bradbury

#8. But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Her devout mother would say: God knows the past, the present and the future. In that case, He had placed her in this world in the full knowledge that she would end up killing herself, and He would not be shocked by her actions

Paulo Coelho

#10. Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. Oh Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagination you hide under that little straw hat!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. All I see are ankles and wrists
and FYI, you're pulling a Mileyfrickin'-Cyrus with that belly flash. Not attractive.

J.R. Ward

#13. If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

Kelly Ripa