Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Pleasure

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Einstein, Albert

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

Bible

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Traherne, Thomas

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Seneca

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Wilde, Oscar

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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balzac, Honore De

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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Byron, Lord

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Addison, Joseph

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Lucretius

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverb, Chinese

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Drabble, Margaret

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Lewis, C. S.

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moliere

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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

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People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Proust, Marcel

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Johnson, Samuel

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Barthes, Roland

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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Bennett, Arnold

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Chesterfield, Lord

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Freud, Sigmund

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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Keats, John

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Charron, Pierre

47.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Branden, Nathaniel

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin