Quotes About Pleasure

When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ("Is that all there is?")

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

When Tyler found out about chocolate-chip cookies, his sole goal in life became to stuff as many as he could into his mouth.

The sum of earthly bliss.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

With thee conversing I forget all time,All seasons, and their change; all please alike.Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,With charm of earliest birds.

And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Savior, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name Fading is the worldling's pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys and lasting treasure, None but Zion's children know.

If God, in his sovereign pleasure, had so appointed, you might have been as he is now; and he, instead of you, might have been set for the defense of the gospel. You were both equally blind by nature. If you attend to this, you will not reproach or hate him, because the Lord has been pleased to open your eyes, and not his.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride

I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the Bible not with a desperate hunger for evidences of God's triumph in pain, but with a view to improving our private pleasures.

The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.