Quotes About Pleasure

My other self lacks self-discipline; left to his own devices, he will always take the path of least resistance through life and as a result will be little more than a simple-minded pleasure seeker. He is also a coward. My other self is not my friend; to the contrary, he is best regarded, in the words of Epictetus, "as an enemy lying in wait.

People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.

True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

It's certain that fine women eatA crazy salad with their meat.

Everything that man esteemsEndures a moment or a day.Love's pleasure drives his love away,The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

As the political sky darkened, the court was lost in a last idyll of pleasure gardens, courtesans and mushairas , or poetic symposia, Sufi devotions and visits to pirs , as literary and religious ambition replaced the political variety.

Our plesance here is all vain glory,This false world is but transitory.

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

One practical trick, says Sleep, is to "reward yourself in the short term" by relishing the prospect of all the wonderful benefits you will enjoy because you chose to override your desire for instant gratification. That way, deferral becomes associated with pleasure and "you're much more likely to embrace it." Indeed, says Sleep, "I quite like the overriding because you just know that it's going to make your life better.

We are grown debauched in our judgments, and corrupt in our principles; no wonder then if carnal in our joys.

Cum carne nutriuntur vita carnis—the lusts of the flesh are nourished when the body is pampered.