Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

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

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.

You are speaking…as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing… what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure….all lead us to the source of...

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more...

There’s nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower,” he said to himself. “They certainly do cheer you up.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

Happiness is a mystery in the minds of many because they keep expecting to attain it from experiences that create pleasures.

[A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

… since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one...

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering...

Life’s true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

It’s been a pleasure to become a part of this organization. I’ve had one of the friendliest receptions here that I can remember.

This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight; and though this pleasure does not so powerfully affect us, nor...

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

The excess of pleasure is pain

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c’induce, e non diletto.]

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for...

There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends; do...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not...

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

If you didn’t do anything that wasn’t good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I’d...

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.

Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil’s sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they allow themselves for a...

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam’d of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce...

The moment after, I began to respire 20 quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide. A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately produced. I felt a sense of tangible extension highly pleasurable...

The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally...

Count your years and you’ll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day...

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life’s joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth....

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-forgetfulness, I again tasted Joy. … One thing, however, I...

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time!

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

… both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish…

Women are pleasured treasures.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

I’ve always felt that love and luck are two sides of the same pair of jeans. Pick a partner that won’t pick your pockets, and you won’t have to be plucky to find pleasure.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.