Top 100 Quotes About Pleasure And Happiness
#1. Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle.
#2. He was inside her, not just her soaked pussy, but in all the complex turbulent and dark mazes that were Marguerite. He wanted to be there forever, wanted to keep her safe and unafraid, give her pleasure and happiness.
Joey W. Hill
#3. Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.
Marcella Hazan
#4. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.
Thomas Huxley
#6. He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;
Hans Christian Andersen
#7. Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
Roberto Bolano
#8. Don't be misled: The imperative to 'Enjoy!' is omnipresent, but pleasure and happiness are almost entirely absent.
Nina Power
#9. Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism.
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Swami Satchidananda
#11. Life had stopped. Life would have to go on. Life went on, and in time the unbelievable began to happen; pleasure and happiness came back, and even joy. But love? Not again. I said it very firmly. Not again.
Mary Stewart
#12. Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
Saul Bellow
#13. Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.
Isra
#14. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#15. If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert
L.M. Montgomery
#16. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.
Seneca.
#17. Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#18. God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.
William Stanley Jevons
#20. Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
Ernestine Rose
#21. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
August Strindberg
#22. False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
John Lubbock
#23. Life is delivered as a series of subjective experiences that we have the opportunity to label and re-label according to our desire to experience pleasure or pain.
Steve Maraboli
#24. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Yukio Mishima
#25. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
Marquis De Sade
#27. Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.
Torron-Lee Dewar
#28. Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others ... cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
#29. All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream
Michael Ende
#30. The way to be happy is to
take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in
imagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.
Toby Reynolds
#31. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
#32. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.
Charles Darwin
#33. I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Frederic Chopin
#34. One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#35. Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
Ramana Maharshi
#36. Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning
Tal Ben-Shahar
#37. And does his philosophy make you happy?" "I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure." "And found it, Mr. Gray?" "Often. Too often." The duchess sighed. "I am searching for peace," she
Oscar Wilde
#38. The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#39. You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
Debasish Mridha
#40. As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
L. Ron Hubbard
#41. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]
Emmanuel Aghado
#42. Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
Gabrielle Dubois
#43. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Criss Jami
#44. The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
Francis Frangipane
#45. O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
#46. Pleasure quickens your body, happiness soothes your mind, joy renews your heart, and love revives your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#48. Happiness is not pleasure, it is a perception of bliss and the fragrance of a flower called service.
Debasish Mridha
#49. The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
Whittaker Chambers
#50. For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.
Shoghi Effendi
#51. It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
Euripides
#52. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#53. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
Ramana Maharshi
#54. God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.
Sam Storms
#55. Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity ... When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
Gretchen Rubin
#56. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy
Sharon Salzberg
#57. The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.
Bryant McGill
#58. True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.-RVM
R.v.m.
#59. Don't give yourself to negligence,
Don't devote yourself to sensual pleasure,
Vigilant and absorbed in meditation
One attains abundant happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#60. Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#61. Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.
Marty Rubin
#62. When desire flows,
Pleasure arises.
Attached to happiness, seeking enjoyment,
People are subject to birth and old age.
Gautama Buddha
#63. We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.
Noah Levine
#64. Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!
Ivan Turgenev
#65. The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
Arnold Bennett
#66. Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport ... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
Frank Crowninshield
#67. Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world ...
Fulton J. Sheen
#70. Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.
Michel De Montaigne
#71. He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more ... well, pleasant.
Mary Balogh
#72. Then answer me this ... how can you know the good without the understanding of evil? How can you know happiness without experiencing the misery, pleasure without the pain? These things are essential parts of life that need to be faced and endured.
Stephanie Hudson
#73. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
Matthieu Ricard
#74. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
#75. The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.
Billy Graham
#76. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill
#77. I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell
#78. Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition
Baruch Spinoza
#79. When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#80. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Noah Levine
#81. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
Cyril Connolly
#82. In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.
Jess Rothenberg
#83. Real happiness combines both pleasure and meaning
Robert Mack
#84. Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.
Dalai Lama
#85. Being loved sounds good in the movies, in books, in the memories of people who've survived the rough beginnings of their love. In real life, in the very beginning? It's every deep fear you've ever wanted to avoid all wrapped in the most intense happiness and pleasure you've ever dreamed possible.
Steph Campbell
#86. Both my happiness and unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex, travel, reading, conversation (hearing oneself talk), food, drink, cigars and lying in warm water.
Cyril Connolly
#87. Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.
Debasish Mridha
#88. As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
P.G. Wodehouse
#89. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.
Virginia Hamilton
#90. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
#91. There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
#92. All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
Jonathan Swift
#93. I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
Samuel Johnson
#94. In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.
Laura Schlessinger
#96. Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. Here is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
Eric Weiner
#98. No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, and
when we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.
R.C. Sproul
#99. The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#100. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
