“Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.”
“What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.”
“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”
“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
“In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.”