Quotes About Pleasure

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Patience is the mother of joy.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.