Quotes About Pleasure

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

It's easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today's cheap pleasures. As the infamous father of the Simpson clan puts it, immediately prior to downing a jar of mayonnaise and vodka, "That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!"66

Pain is more potent than pleasure, and anxiety more than hope.

Vice is easy. Failure is easy, too. It's easier not to shoulder a burden. It's easier not to think, and not to do, and not to care. It's easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today's cheap pleasures. As the infamous father of the Simpson clan puts it, immediately prior to downing a jar of mayonnaise and vodka, "That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!

Na verdade, ficamos mais negativos após uma perda de determinado tamanho do que nos sentimos bem com um ganho de tamanho idêntico. A dor é mais potente do que o prazer, e a ansiedade mais forte do que a esperança.

Chaos is the deep ocean bottom to which Pinocchio voyaged to rescue his father from Monstro, whale and fire-breathing dragon. That journey into darkness and rescue is the most difficult thing a puppet must do, if he wants to be real; if he wants to extract himself from the temptations of deceit and acting and victimization and impulsive pleasure and totalitarian subjugation; if he wants to take his place as a genuine Being in the world.

Vice is easy. Failure is easy, too. It's easier not to shoulder a burden. It's easier not to think, and not to do, and not to care. It's easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today's cheap pleasures. As the infamous father of the Simpson clan puts it, immediately prior to downing a jar of mayonnaise and vodka, "That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!"66

Nos costó mucho entender que frustrando un placer particular se podía obtener un provecho, ya que algo así se opone frontalmente a nuestros instintos animales más fundamentales, que exigen una satisfacción inmediata, sobre todo en los inevitables períodos de carestía.

In fact, we feel more negative about a loss of a given size than we feel good about the same-sized gain. Pain is more potent than pleasure, and anxiety more than hope.

Así, las emociones negativas, por desagradables que resulten, nos protegen. Sentimos dolor, miedo, vergüenza y asco, y así evitamos sufrir daños. Y se trata de sentimientos que solemos sentir a menudo. De hecho, sentimos más emoción negativa ante una pérdida de un valor determinado que la positiva que experimentamos si conseguimos algo de ese mismo valor. El dolor es más contundente que el placer y la ansiedad, más que la esperanza.

The ancient counter will even shut down your immune system, expending the energy and resources required for future health now, during the crises of the present. It will render you impulsive,20 so that you will jump, for example, at any short-term mating opportunities, or any possibilities of pleasure, no matter how sub-par, disgraceful or illegal.

If you are low status ten (...) Money will make you liable to the dangerous temptations of drugs and alcohol, which are much more rewarding if you have been deprived of pleasure for a long period.

Ali osobno žrtvovanje i rad puno nas djelotvornije ?uvaju od patnje negoli kratkoro?ni impulzivni užici.

Te haré sentir todos los placeres, pero no puedo hacerte pensar.