Pleasure And Happiness Quotes:

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Happy, Pleasure And Happiness, Life Struggle

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

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Reality, May, Illusion, Pleasure And Happiness

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Intemperance, Life And Happiness

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Life, Happiness, Thinking, Pleasures Of Life, Pleasure And Happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Happiness, Creativity, Zest, Joy Happiness, Joy Within

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

- Josh Billings

topic: Happiness, Happy, Dog, Stop Smoking, Pleasure And Happiness

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.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Inspirational, Sex, Giving, Caress, Admiring

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

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Health, Secret To Happiness, Pleasure And Happiness

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Live Your Life

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

- Aristotle

topic: Wise, Pain, Philosophical, Pain And Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Happy, Sparks, Unexpected, Looking For Happiness, Perfect Happiness

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

- Georges Bataille

source: Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

topic: Happiness, Poison, Fruit, Tainted, Pleasure And Happiness

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

- George Santayana

topic: Happiness, Happy, Determination, Pleasure And Happiness, Fugitive

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Happiness, Joy, Lasts, Joy And Happiness, Happy Thoughts

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Happiness, Patience, Time, Hurrying, Breathless

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

- Aristotle

source: Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

topic: Pleasure And Happiness, Busy Man

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

- John Bunyan

topic: Flower, Poppies, Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Snow Falling

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

- Francoise Bertaut de Motteville

topic: Happiness, Way, Pleasure, Pleasure And Happiness, Found Happiness

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

- Robert Burns

source: 'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59

topic: Fall, Rivers, White, Pleasures Of Life, Snow Falling

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

- Jane Austen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring, Pleasures Of Life, Seize The Opportunity

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

- Joseph Addison

source: Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

topic: Life, Happiness, Men, Pleasures Of Life, Pleasure And Happiness

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

- William Blake

topic: Love, Fun, Too Much, Pleasure And Happiness, Too Much Fun

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

- Robert Burns

source: 'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59

topic: Flower, Fall, Rivers, Pleasures Of Life, Snow Falling

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

- Minette Walters

source: Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

topic: Fall, Rivers, White, Pleasures Of Life, Snow Falling

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Being Sad, Melancholy, Pleasure And Happiness

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Teacher, Pain, Mistake, Pleasure And Happiness

Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Pain, Eye, Doors, Pain And Sorrow, Pleasure And Happiness

Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.

- Seraphim Rose

topic: Pain, Men, Profound, Pleasure And Happiness

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Happiness, Gleam, Taste, Pleasure And Happiness

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

- Swami Satchidananda

source: Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

topic: Worst Enemy, Suffering, Unhappy, Pleasure And Happiness, Unhappy Life

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

- Marcella Hazan

topic: Art, Home, Accomplishment, Pleasure And Happiness, Special Occasion

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

- Henri Lefebvre

source: "Everyday Life in the Modern World".

topic: Creative, Overcoming, New Horizons, Pleasure And Happiness

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Reading, Sadness, Alive, Pleasure And Happiness

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

- Saul Bellow

topic: Fun, Pleasure, Pursue, Pleasure And Happiness