Pleasure And Happiness Quotes

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Happiness, Reality, May

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

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

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Happiness, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Happy, Dog

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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

  Aristotle

  Wise, Pain, Philosophical

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

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

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

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

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• 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

  Education, Men, Giving

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

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• But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

  John Bunyan

  Flower, Poppies, Pleasure

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

  Francoise Bertaut de Motteville

  Happiness, Peace, Work

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

  Robert Burns

  Fall, Rivers, White

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Men

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

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• 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

  Love, Fun, Too Much

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

  Robert Burns

  Flow, Poppies, Pleasure

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

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

  Minette Walters

  Fall, Rivers, White

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

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• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Being Sad, Melancholy

  Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

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