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Quotes About Pleasure

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
~ Carlo Petrini
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
~ Auguste Rodin
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
~ Jeremy Bentham
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
~ Peter Lynch
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
~ Marc Gafni
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
~ Albert Einstein
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
~ Ramana Maharshi
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
~ C. S. Lewis
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
~ Robert Breault
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
~ Thomas Traherne
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.
~ Thalassa Cruso
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
~ Roland Barthes
I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
~ Paul McCartney
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
~ Walter Bagehot
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.
~ Kim Ki-duk
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
~ Alexander Pope
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
~ E. O. Wilson
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
~ Émile Zola