Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

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

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

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Billings, Josh

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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 young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Aristotle

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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

Seneca

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