Quotes About Pleasure

2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.

L'injonction capitaliste (tout ce qui est agréable est obligatoire) est aussi stupide que la culpabilité chrétienne (tout ce qui est agréable est interdit).

El mandato capitalista (todo lo que es placentero es obligatorio) es igual de estúpido que la culpabilidad cristiana (todo lo que es placentero está prohibido).

Dragostea dureaz? cât trebuie s? dureze. Dar, dac? vrei s? dureze, cred c? trebuie s? te obi?nuie?ti cu gândul c? o s? te plictise?ti ca la carte. Trebuie s?-?i g?se?ti persoana cu care ai chef s?-?i împar?i lehamitea. De vreme ce pasiunea etern? nu exist?, m?car s? c?ut?m o plictiseal? agreabil?.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.

To reproach Hitchcock for specializing in suspense is to accuse him of being the least boring of filmmakers; it is also tantamount to blaming a lover who instead of concentrating on his own pleasure insists on sharing it with his partner.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.

If you have a good voice, sing boldly. In the company of people who ask you, and by yourself for your own pleasure, sing; but do not abuse their patience, so that people will say, as they sometimes do, "Good singers are often a bore.

Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.

pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

There are no new sins—only new sinners. There are no new crimes—only new criminals, No new evils—only new evildoers. No new pleasures—only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.

Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and "religious" activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself.

As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin. However, it is short-lived and fatal.

The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.