Quotes on Pleasures Of Life

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

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.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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