Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

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

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

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.

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It’s a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

We conform to pain until we don’t notice it anymore; it’s what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the pleasure or achievement quotient. It is possible to use even cooking, clothes, cosmetics and housekeeping for fun. The essence of...

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

For your learning disability pleasure, I’ll be playing a song backwards.

… the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as this gust of feverish agitation that sweeps over us from time to time. For then the die is cast, the person whose company we enjoy at that moment is...

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are ‘The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation’)

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.

It’s a great pleasure for me and my team. It was a surprise. A good surprise.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?

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.

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

LIKING WHAT YOU DO IS PLEASURE, DOING WHAT YOU LIKE IS PASSION.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

It’s a double pleasure to trick the trickster.

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

when your visible pain-is another’s pleasure, keep a distance to share .

If any woman opens her legs for you, don’t feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel.

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

If there was one thing she’d learned from her parents, it’s that pleasure was sacred.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

In today’s world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don’t want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the...

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything–in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.”You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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 who we are. Only by having intimate contact with this source can we experience the fullness of our life. Only...

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 and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto...

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 joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately.

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 has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as...