Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.