Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Pleasure

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Einstein, Albert

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Little, Mary

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

Billings, Josh

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Moliere

11.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Voltaire

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Drabble, Margaret

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Seneca

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.