Quotes About Pleasure

Have you found your life distasteful?My life did and does smack sweet.Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?Mine I saved and hold complete.Do your joys with age diminish?When mine fail me, I'll complain.Must in death your daylight finish?My sun sets to rise again.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

It is far more common to fight your way through terrible software designs than it is to enjoy the pleasure of working with a good one.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Daily Law: Think back on the moments when you felt deeply and personally connected to an activity. Think about the pleasure it brought you. In such activities are signs of your true purpose. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

What you know must translate into action, and action must translate into knowledge. In this way strategy becomes a lifelong challenge and the source of constant pleasure in surmounting difficulties and solving problems.

Los seductores prefieren seleccionar sus posibilidades. Tanto como sea posible, persiguen a gente que delata alguna vulnerabilidad a ellos, y evitan a la que no pueden emocionar. Dejar en paz a quienes son inaccesibles a ti es una senda sensata; no puedes seducir a todos. Por otra parte, busca activamente a la presa que reaccione de la manera correcta. Esto volverá mucho más placenteras y satisfactorias tus seducciones.

Conoce  a tu presa,  y  elígela con cuidado. No pier- das tiempo en la caza menor: los conejos que caen en la trampa, el visón preso en el cepo perfumado. Desafío es placer.

These childhood attractions are hard to put into words and are more like sensations—that of deep wonder, sensual pleasure, power, and heightened awareness.

We imagine we are looking for the truth, or being realistic, when in fact we are holding on to ideas that bring a release from tension and soothe our egos, make us feel superior. This pleasure principle in thinking is the source of all of our mental biases. If you believe that you are somehow immune to any of the following biases, it is simply an example of the pleasure principle in action

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view. What could be more objective or scientific? But because of the pleasure principle and its unconscious influence, we manage to find the evidence that confirms what we want to believe. This is known as confirmation bias.

And the most dangerous of their weapons was insinuation—the means by which Madame cast her spell on the young man, making him seem the aggressor, giving her the night of pleasure she desired, and safeguarding her guiltless reputation, all in one stroke.

Only some inner drive—pleasure, love—can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift us out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot.

That so many people can derive so much pleasure from such a revolting spectacle," he said to me when he returned home that night, "almost makes one doubt the very premise on which democracy is based." But he was pleased nevertheless that the masses now thought of him as a good sport, as well as "the Scholar" and "the Greek.

that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily

Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness.

Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!

It's better to copulate than not.

The aroma of kaf," Turak said, "is almost as enjoyable as the flavor.

All he wanted from life was some good wine, a game of dice, and a pretty girl or three.