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

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Seneca

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

Voltaire

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 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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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 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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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's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

Moliere

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 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 the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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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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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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita