Pleasure Quotes - Page 6

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

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

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.