Pleasures Of Life Quotes by Marcel Proust, Benjamin Disraeli, Robert Greene, Siegbert Tarrasch, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcus Tullius Cicero and many others.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
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.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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.
I find the joy of the ‘doing’ increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work – found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life.В It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the “shaggy dog stories” and “stupid pet tricks” that are commonplace pleasures of life.
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
