The Greatest Pleasure In Life Quotes

#1. The greatest pleasure in life is love.

William Temple

#2. The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

William Hazlitt

#3. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

#4. Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Giovanni Papini

#5. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Thomas A. Edison

#6. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Noah Levine

#7. One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

Amanda Filipacchi

#8. The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore.
Take your choice!

Neil Gaiman

#9. Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Thomas Bernhard

#10. The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

#11. Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

L. Ron Hubbard

#13. We were made for God, and until he is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness.

Kyle Idleman

#14. Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.

Anonymous

#16. In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days as the most active period of my life.

Emil Cioran

#17. When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. People are always doing studies. Now there's one that says drinking coffee can lead to the prevention of memory loss in old age. This is terrible news. Drinking coffee is my greatest pleasure in life. That, and forgetting.

Ariel Leve

#19. Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

Claire Tomalin

#20. Once we start basing our self-esteem purely on our performance, our greatest joys in life can start to seem like so much hard work, our pleasure morphing into pain.

Kristin Neff

#21. Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Dean Koontz

#22. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#24. The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

John Piper