Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Pleasure

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Epictetus

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Billings, Josh

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

Voltaire

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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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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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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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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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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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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