Worldy Pleasure Quotes

#1. Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

Baruch Spinoza

#2. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

Alexandra Potter

#4. All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

C.L.R. James

#5. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#6. The more I see of the 'hounoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.

Karen Swallow Prior

#7. Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

George Herbert

#8. It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory.

James S.A. Corey

#9. A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon.

Donna Marie Rogers

#10. Technology is fascinating.

Thomas Bangalter

#11. We can step into uncharted territory and relax with the groundlessness of our situation; [we can] dissolve the dualistic tension between us and them, this and that, good and bad, by inviting in what we usually avoid. My teacher described this as leaning into the sharp points.

Pema Chodron

#12. The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery
a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

Rick Bass

#13. Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Victor Serge