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Quotes about Pleasure

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde : Irish writer, & playwright
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
 
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Who is the gallant, disregarded hero in each of us - rising in times of greatness - rarely choosing the ways of the most comfort, the most security, or the most instant pleasure?

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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Eating with the fullest pleasure –pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance –is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.  In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Wendell Berry (1934 - )
 
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mohandas Gandhi
 
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I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

Scott Raymond Adams : American cartoonist, creator of "Dilbert" in 1989
Scott Raymond Adams (1957 - )
Source: The Dilbert Blog: Work Pleasure: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/12/work-pleasure.html
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Who you are is this "motion of seeing" that is looking through your eyes right now. When you stop at and as this "motion of aliveness" - by consciously refocusing your attention to this seer; by coming to being deeply at rest at and as this one that is the "you" that you can never get away from; by no longer furthering out from this "you" and into the attempt to try and be something that is notyou; you are immediately freed from who you think you are in every given moment of this realization.

Elysha
Source: http://www.elysha.org
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True happiness is completely causeless; it is not reliant on a thing; it is its own reward, its own pleasure. It is immutable and immovable even as it is constantly changing and forever increasing in its movement into its own manifestation.

Elysha
Source: http://www.elysha.org
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Your true home is in being deeply at rest at and as the heart of existence itself, the "you" that you truly are and have always been.  The heart is totally free of everything even as it contains everything, sustains everything and is flowing through everything - without any paradox or contradiction to any of it.

Elysha
Source: http://www.elysha.org
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As you learn to leave alone the activity of unconsciously trying to be the mindbody that you think that you are - the mindbody that this "you" is currently flowing through - and you learn to move as this one that you truly are - this "you" of you; the very heart of existence - steadily, consciously and momentarily, the continuity of the ever deepening of this innermost as it keeps on entering its manifestation, through this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, allows you to simply bubble in the sheer joy, pleasure, peace, delightfulness and stillness that this "you" of you is.

Elysha
Source: http://www.elysha.org
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The pleasure-pain reaction is generally appropriate for the animal, but you can see that for thought it is not.  The criterion for coherent thought is that it is true and correct.  But if you can get pleasure or pain from thought then coherent thought is no longer functioning.  Rather, the criterion has become whether the thought gives pleasure or pain, consequently that thought becomes destructive.  If thought can be determined by pleasure or pain, that's already the beginning of a lot of trouble.  And we conditioned by that.

David Bohm
Source: Thought as a System, Page: 49
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Pain and Pleasure are merely defined by Perception

Stephanie Williams
 
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides (c. 485 - 406 BC)
 
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci : Italian genius; leading artist, scientist, architect & military engineer of his time
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
 
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer
 
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Every day, find something new you think you cannot enjoy and enjoy it.

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Source: Ballad of Truisms
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Pleasure is great- but it doesn't last. Pleasure comes from your five senses. From a great meal, a nice glass of wine and a new car. Nothing wrong with these things- they make the experience of life better. But they are fleeeting...

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.

People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.

Robin Sharma : Gaia Explorer
Robin Sharma
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Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

Pema Chodron : Gaia Explorer
Pema Chodron
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give yourself over to absolute pleasure
let the warm waters of the flesh flow over you
erotic nightmares & sensual daydreams
forever and ever..

rocky horror picture show
Source: Rocky horror picture show
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Pleasure & Rewards.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

Ian Gardner : Mystic
Ian Gardner
Source: Ian's blog et al.
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Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti : Indian religious figure, spiritual teacher, educated in England
J. Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)
Source: Meditations 1969 part 2
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Lord Chesterfield Stanhope (1694 - 1773)
Source: Letters to his son
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The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

"Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : Indian spiritual and political leader, called Mahatma "great soul"
Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
 
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
Source: Quotation Page, quotationspage.com
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure--that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
 
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Hank, I want nothing from you except what you wish to give me.  Do you remember that you called me a trader once?  I want you to come to me seeking nothing but your own enjoyment.  So long as you wish to remain married, whatever your reason, I have no right to resent it.  My way of trading is to know that the joy you give me is paid for by the joy you get from me - not by your suffering or mine.  I don't accept sacrifices and I don't make them.  If you asked me for more than you meant to me, I would refuse.  If you asked me to give up the railroad, I'd leave you.  If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all.  A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.  You don't do it in business, Hank.  Don't do it in your own life.

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"