Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.
Marty Rubin.
“No work is so important you have to do it.”
“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”
“To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.”
“If your work is stressful, it's not your work.”
“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”
“I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.”
“Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.”
“It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back...”
“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”
“When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the ...”
