Browsing Topic Best Pleasure Quotes

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

For years I’ve advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became geniuses (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.