Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

My pleasure is only superficial: in oily droplets it lies on my skin without being absorbed.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

We don’t value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no...

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

Many people confuse pleasure with happiness until its temporary blissful feeling comes to an end.

Be diplomatic and let them know how it would be a pleasure to assist them in any way you can

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.

Happiness is pleasure without regret

… it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct…

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you’ll see the worldIf I’m not mistaken…Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure…Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.

Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God’s intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and...

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents – will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

Men seek but one thing in life – their pleasure.

PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in...

The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly,...

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

I got offended when she laughed, because she was showing pleasure, but she was also showing displeasure—in all the previous moments where she hadn’t laughed.

I’ll steal the letter X, and replace it with treasure. So sex would then be spelled setreasure, but it’d still be just as pleasurable.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in a box of Chicken McNuggets than in a pastured chicken or a rare...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow’s plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady...

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody’s asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember...

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body...

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic,...

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are...