Sentences with phrase «on fleeting pleasures»

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Physical pleasure is fleeting, but even a lifetime of cheesecakes and other pleasures don't measure up to the long - term, rich and complex emotional reward of something I work for, like muscle definition on my abs, or being able to swim across the Hudson River on a whim, or to come in second in a footrace for the fun of it.

Therefore, on those infrequent occasions when we admit that even pleasure can cloy and we a experience fleeting desire for a richer spirituality, deep down we suspect that that desire is merely a matter of our looking the gift horse of modern life in the mouth.

Rather than simply depending on sensory pleasures for short - term escape from pain and / or a fleeting experiences of joy / happiness, wise mind may improve radical acceptance, sensory soothing, and responding inter-personally with wisdom (kindness, respect, compassion).

On my way home from the gallery, mulling the connection between The Great Gatsby — a book I revere in large measure for its understanding of evanescence and the price of fleeting pleasure — and the paintings to which I had been having such a pleasurable response, I began to have second thoughts about all that fun.