Well because I have twin seven-year-old boys I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas so it is a costly though extremely pleasing proposition.
It may be a cliche but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping at kisses and toys advancing boldly sudden to take alarm retreating to the corner of arm and knee eager to be reassured taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
Please to put a nickel please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
When work is a pleasure life is a joy! When work is a duty life is slavery.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Reform is not pleasant but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work how much less a nation.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
As women we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding ' and most of my film are women. We get the work done you know much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
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 a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy easier in fact than to be a master in the truth because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.