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Quotes About Pleasure

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.
~ Dorie Greenspan
He envisioned the products of successful analysis as individuals constructively free of repression, able to use their manifold component sexual instincts for their own pleasure and satisfaction.
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
~ Stephen Arnott
I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.
~ Stephen Colbert
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable
~ Stephen Dunn
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
~ Stephen Fry
I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.
~ Stephen Hawking
The root cause of suffering is explained as the second of the Buddha's truths. Quite simply, it is our own desire for sensual pleasure and our attachment to the objects of the senses that cause us so much pain. Being deluded concerning the reality of this world, we react to the phantoms of our perceptions with lust or anger. We are filled with desire or hatred, pride or jealousy, and all such conceits cause us to act in a way that gives pain to ourselves and others.
~ Stephen Hodge
Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.
~ Stephen Mitchell
Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope, and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist – for we would no longer be who we are.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.
~ Stephen Russell
I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.
~ Steve Allen
The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens.
~ Steve Almond
Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again.
~ Steve Almond
They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one.
~ Steve Berry
He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free. Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love.
~ Steve Erickson
Epicureanism says, "Be sensuous; enjoy yourself." Education says, "Be resourceful; expand yourself." Materialism says, "Be satisfied; please yourself." Psychology says, "Be confident; fulfill yourself." Pride says, "Be superior; promote yourself" Humanism says, "Be capable; believe in yourself." But God says to us, "Be wise; humble yourself.
~ Steve Farrar
Sex must be important as it is so expensive.
~ Steve Jones
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
~ Steve Martin
I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.
~ Steven Brust
Sometimes, a certain amount of waste is just a necessary part of maximizing one's pleasure.
~ Steven Brust
Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.
~ Steven Brust
When we die we mourn the loss of such a magnificent sensation that is orgasm.
~ Steven Cooper