Quotes about Pleasure

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

I did it my own self to gratify.

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.