722 Pleasure Quotes for You to Enjoy

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson

You Beneath Pleasure Bite Hook Bait Know Till

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce

Art Pleasure Recognize Part Schools Irresponsibility Cannot

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure. Wayne Dyer

Life Journey You Yourself Sickness Practice Become Mountains Meditation Month Churches Pleasure Visiting At Least One Introspective Hurry Slower Give More Through Read Least Permission Quiet Yoga Lakes Places Your Novel Suffer Museums

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

Happiness Happy Virtue Pleasure Neither Simply Nor Growing Growth Thing

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. William Shakespeare

Action Pleasure Seem Hours Make Short

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Fred Rogers

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good You Evil Pleasure Pursue Remains Passes Labor Away

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. A. A. Milne

Book Wind Alice Pleasure More Read Masterpieces Island How How Much Wonderland Children Which Much Grown-Up Treasure

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand

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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Sam Harris

Love Loneliness Thoughts Emotions Enjoy Thinking Others Our Everything Pleasure Eat Purpose Foods Feel Like Altering Read Another Friendships Person Form Fleeting Certain Avoid Specific Presence Consciousness Tongues

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein

Great Me Indeed Pleasure See Gives Great Pleasure Stubbornness Incorrigible

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. Henny Youngman

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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot

Christmas Christmas Tree Tree Corner Fragrant Pleasure Tables Rising Kisses Take Knee Advancing Taking Between Arm Retreating Toys Falling Legs Moving Reassured Grasping Boldly Sudden Chairs Eager Alarm Brilliance

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Arthur Schopenhauer

Character Man Others Pleasure Sign Rascals More He Nobility Takes Always His Chief Any Pity Little Sociable Company

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. Bernard de Mandeville

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