Quotes about pleasure
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“To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271

Love, Faith, Religion, Passion

“I used to climb mountains in snow and ice, hanging onto the sides of great rocks. I was describing one of my adventures to an older friend once, and when I had finished he asked me, "Why do you want to kill yourself?" I protested. I told him that the rewards I wanted were of sight, of pleasure, of the thrill of pitting my body and my skills against nature. My friend replied, "When you are as old as I am you will see that you are trying to kill yourself."”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 312

Mountain, Nature

“Consider all that you've gone through, all that you've survived. And that the story of your life is done, your assignment complete. How many good things have you seen? How much pain and pleasure have you resisted? How many honors have you declined? How many unkind people have you been kind to?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book V, 31

Life, Pain, People

“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle.”

Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist

attributed, but source not available.

Pain, Happiness

“No one in England has ever wished to prevent the fullest expression of Scottish or Welsh traditions and customs. Indeed, their manifestation is regarded with pleasure and pride by the English people. We have reaped great advantages from this tolerant mood.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: 'Yugoslavia and Europe' (29 October 1937), quoted in Winston Churchill, Step by Step, 1936–1939 (1939; 1947), p. 169

People, Mood

“Oh, my shoulders grow aweary of the burdens I am bearin',
An' I grumble when I'm footsore at the rough road I am farin',
But I strap my knapsack tighter till I feel the leather bind me,
An' I'm glad to bear the burdens for the ones who come behind me.
It's for them that I am ploddin', for the children comin' after;
I would strew their path with roses and would fill their days with laughter.Oh, there's selfishness within me, there are times it gets to talkin',
Times I hear it whisper to me, "It's a dusty road you're walkin';
Why not rest your feet a little; why not pause an' take your leisure?
Don't you hunger in your strivin' for the merry whirl of pleasure?"
Then I turn an' see them smilin' an' I grip my burdens tighter,
For the joy that I am seekin' is to see their eyes grow brighter.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.112 - The Burden Bearer, stanzas 1 and 2.

Hunger, Children, Feeling, Time

“I often dream about falling. Such dreams are commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock but it would not hold. Gravel gave way. I grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror 1 fell into the abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was relative; there was no bottom and no end. A feeling of pleasure overcame me. I realized that what I embody, the principle of life, cannot be destroyed. It is written into the cosmic code, the order of the universe. As I continued to fall in the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 312-313

Life, Peace, Beauty, Dreams

“Among the most beautiful pleasures in life, love knows no rivals.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Tra i piaceri più belli della vita, l'amore non conosce rivali.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Beauty

“But you can't just stand there and try to judge
It hurts but your jealousy probably tears you up inside as much
And it's such a pleasure every button that I touch
I treasure every glutton that I punish in my lust”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Stimulate" (from 8 Mile, 2002)
2000s

Jealousy, Tear, Hurt

“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”

John Climacus book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

23:25
The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“As a little boy or girl can have no idea of conjugal pleasure, even so a worldly man cannot at all comprehend the ecstasy of Divine communion.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

193
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Girl, Boy, Idea

“There are three lines of life which stand out prominently to view: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the life of reflection.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

Life

“Women executives have a different sensitivity. Male executives only understood makeup or fashion as an instrument of seduction, because that was addressed to them. They didn’t understand that we like to put on makeup or dress up just because it’s a game; it’s pleasurable.”

Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker

On being asked to be the face of Lancôme after being fired by a male executive decades earlier in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)

Women, Game, Fashion, Understanding

“I am the only being whose doom
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
I never caused a thought of gloom
A smile of joy since I was born
In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away
As friendless after eighteen years
As lone as on my natal day”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

I Am the Only Being (1836)

Life, Secret, Smile, Tear

“I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”

John Donne Songs and Sonnets

Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow

Love, World, Fear, Beauty

“Steal the moments from time, get excited, write the story leaving a footprint of your existence, have fun, forget the bad moments thinking about the future with optimism, have sex with the person who can give you pleasure at the mere thought and remember to live by daring, dreaming and loving. Life is one, take note!”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ruba gli attimi al tempo, emozionati, scrivi la storia lasciando una traccia della tua esistenza, divertiti, dimentica i brutti momenti pensando al futuro con ottimismo, fai sesso con la persona che può darti piacere al solo pensiero e ricordati di vivere osando, sognando ed amando. La vita è una, prendi nota!
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Dreams, Sex

“An example of life? In work, in friendship, in love, in pleasure and in pain: always, unconditionally and simply be yourself.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Un esempio di vita? Nel lavoro, nell'amicizia, nell'amore, nel piacere e nel dolore: sii sempre, incondizionatamente e semplicemente te stesso.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Pain, Friendship

“With the right person, you will experience someone who is able not only to accept, but also to love the truth of you and meet your needs because it brings them pleasure to do so.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Love, Truth, Personality

“Happiness is a life filled with meaning, pleasure, and adventure.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Life, Happiness

“Without complicity, it cannot exist any pleasure.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Senza la complicità, non può esistere alcun piacere.
Source: prevale.net

“Pains and sufferings are pleasurable if hearts are mingled with love and compassion.”

ratikanta1968

Love, Pain, Suffering, Heart

“The inner compass is designed to lead you in the direction of what is in your best interests. But just because something is in your best interests does not mean that it will necessarily be pleasurable.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Life communicates in a strange way: it does so through signals and codes. You think you already know them all, but you don't. Each person who enters your life teaches you a new word: affection, friendship, trust, competition, success, love, pleasure, respect, longing, loneliness, courage, betrayal, disappointment…. My favourite words have always been love, pleasure, respect and trust; the last one I learnt was courage.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vita comunica in modo strano: lo fa attraverso segnali e codici. Pensate di conoscerli già tutti, ma non è così. Ogni persona che entra nella vostra vita vi insegna una nuova parola: affetto, amicizia, fiducia, competizione, successo, amore, piacere, rispetto, desiderio, solitudine, coraggio, tradimento, delusione... . Le mie parole preferite sono sempre state amore, piacere, rispetto e fiducia; l'ultima che ho imparato è stata coraggio.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Friendship, Disappointment

“The mind is the greatest amplifier of the human body. It has the power to increase pain, but also pleasure. Whenever possible, oriented your thinking.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La mente è il più grande amplificatore del corpo umano. Ha il potere di aumentare il dolore, ma anche il piacere. Quando è possibile, orientate il vostro pensiero.
Source: prevale.net

Pain, Thinking

“One of the best pleasures in life is being the main reason one of a smile.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Uno dei migliori piaceri della vita è essere il motivo principale di un sorriso.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Smile

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Quotes about pleasure
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