Pleasure Quotes - Page 17

• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick The Great

  Sad, Truth, Diversity

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• Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Taste, Enjoy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

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• It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heartache, Joy, Greatest Love

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.116, Conari Press

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• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Community

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.98

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• Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Maturity, Delay, Results

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  William Hazlitt

  Lasts, Life Is, Duty

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2098, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Desire, Torment

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• Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Filled Up, Intellectual

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.47

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• All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Running, Pain

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2394, Manonmani Publishers

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• The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Giving, Meditation

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• There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Satiation

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• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Action, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

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• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Horse, Entrepreneur

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Mean, Pride

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Goal

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tests, Approval, Pleasures Of Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.56, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

  Love, Sorrow, Lasts

  'Celestine.'

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• Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

  William S. Burroughs

  Relief

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• There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

  Thomas Fuller

  Love, Beloved, Beloved Person

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• I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

  Lindy West

  Real, World, Ridiculous

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• We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

  Fred Rogers

  Journey, Challenges, Neighbor

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