Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

Best Quotes about Pleasure

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Bagehot, Walter

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Wilde, Oscar

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Charron, Pierre

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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 is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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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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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Moliere

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

Drabble, Margaret

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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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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

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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]