„Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of Allah for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.“

— Ali

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„In it and in the other prayers of the Mystics there is scarcely a petition. There is never a word of the theory that God's dealings with us are to show His "power"; still less of the theory that "of His own good pleasure" He has " predestined" any souls to eternal damnation.“
— Florence Nightingale
„Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; …“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.“
— Jane Austen
„Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.“
— Confucius