Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Drabble, Margaret

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Moliere

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Little, Mary

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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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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 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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Seneca

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Bataille, Georges

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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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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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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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