Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

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

Charron, Pierre

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Seneca

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

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

Epictetus

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

Einstein, Albert

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Bible

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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Voltaire

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bataille, Georges