For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.

He tried to hide his obvious pleasure from the music teacher, who had wandered over to listen.

I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for pleasure.

In the author's opinion, many people like to gossip because it gives them a feeling of pleasure.

It hit me then: why, as a child, helping dad clean his comb was such a pleasure?

It was a fair trade —I got a pleasure, and she had yet another tasty treat.

It's a pleasure to be here.

One is related to what freud calls the pleasure principle, the other to what he calls the reality principle.

Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.

The report data shows that pleasure reading levels for younger children, ages 2-8, remain largely the same.

She always derives great pleasure from designing something new.

This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning—to see school as source of joy.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

The more horrible the school circumstances, the more important pleasure is to achieving any educational success.

Pleasure is not a dirty word.

Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with, often because they are pressured by their administrators, treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

experience a great deal of pleasure in learning

At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it.

Pleasure is not a dirty word.

This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

To make that happen, you have to help the child find pleasure in learning — to see school as source of joy.

Sadly the pleasure that comes from extravagances often disappears long before the bills do.

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\Snapping a photo directs attention, which heightens the pleasure you get from whatever you're looking at,\ Dehl says.

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Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.

Yet as we report now, the food police are determined that this enjoyment should be rendered yet another guilty pleasure intensified to damage our health.

Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.