Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

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

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Proust, Marcel

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Moliere

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

Billings, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Charron, Pierre

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Drabble, Margaret

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Voltaire

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Epictetus

43.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lucretius

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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