Quotes About Pleasure

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

She knows very well that the way to find happiness in this world is not to hate your life but to somehow learn how to accept your life. Take pride in your work, whatever it is. Derive whatever pleasure you can from whatever surrounds you—the sky, the people you like, the light falling on the brick wall.

It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.

I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended

I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption. His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

I suspect that what make hedonists so angry when they think about overeachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and lateCoffee and oranges in a sunny chair.

I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. -

Es mejor soportar algunos determinados dolores para gozar de placeres mayores. Conviene privarse de algunos determinados placeres para no sufrir dolores penosos Testimonios escogidos, fragmento 34.

un síndrome, no un valor. Pasión por vivir, hacerle el amor a la vida. Hasta el más grande de los placeres puede

Amar sin apegos es amar sin miedos. Es asumir el derecho a explorar intensamente el mundo, a hacerse cargo de uno mismo y a buscar un sentido de vida. También significa tener una actitud realista frente al amor, afianzar el autorespeto y fortalecer el autocontrol. Es disfrutar de la dupla placer/seguridad, sin volverla imprescindible. Es hacer las paces con Dios y la incertidumbre. Es tirar la certeza a la basura y dejar que el universo se haga cargo de uno. Es aprender a renunciar.

Hay placeres que no son para compartir

libertad auténtica es cuando la mente se desprende de lo inútil y de los miedos; cuando decide rechazar todos los apegos y los supuestos privilegios (estatus, poder, fama) que alimentan el ego hasta convertirlo en algo insufrible. Placeres del tener que nos atan o nos hacen caminar en círculos; malos placeres, diría

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

Both death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty – all these things happen equally to good men and bad, being neither noble nor shameful. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of the world? And if not, are there not thousands of abler pens labouring for its improvement?—It is so much pleasanter to please than to instruct—to play the companion rather than the preceptor.

Listeners love when opera dethrones or kills language; the regicide, on these occasions, is the revolutionary, pleasure-seeking, penetrated, tickled ear. Opera theory tells us that words master music, but we, in our secret hearts, know music's superiority; and this destruction of language, this reversal of hierarchy, makes opera a fit object for the enthusiasms of sex-and-gender dissidents.