Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Pleasure

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Seneca

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Einstein, Albert

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Billings, Josh

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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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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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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 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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Selden, John

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Charron, Pierre

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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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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Clinton, De Witt

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.