Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

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

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

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

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 Repentance is quite out of date.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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 learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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

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

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

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

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