Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure quotes talk of both giving and receiving pleasure. We all find pleasure in different things. Spend time thinking about what brings you pleasure. Indulge yourself. Pleasure, just like passion, purpose and joy, must be harmless to create positive benefits. I wish you plentiful pleasures and deep, abiding joy…always.

…play produces feelings of pleasure which help you escape from two major creativity killers – stress and self-consciousness.
Jordan Ayan

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
Cicero

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
William Hazlitt

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it
Ernest Hemingway

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly…Perhaps it’s a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.
Barbara Holland

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possibilities. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Søren Kierkegaard

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.
Krishnamurti

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything.
Norman Lear

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C.S. Lewis

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine

I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Stendhal

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, where as joy arises from within.
Eckhart Tolle

Give yourself abundant pleasure, and you will have abundant pleasure to give to others.
Neale Donald Walsch

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it.
Woodrow Wilson

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