Pleasures Of Life Quotes

“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.”
― Beatrix Potter

“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Being Elizabeth

“A woman with an extraordinary oral fixation is a rarity, a blessing, a righteous investment.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“May you have all the pleasure you've always craved. Nay, may you drown in it!”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Seeing the person yeu love come home
Happiness is so simple to a child”
― Sandesh Hukpachongbang

“Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable, and more depressed. Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest to obtain and the easiest to lose. But pleasure, while necessary in life (in certain doses), isn't, by itself, sufficient. Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare”
― Kingsley Amis

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“...each of us needed to find just the right way to take our mind off our problems, and it did not matter what that was--a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop, a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased”
― ArLeaBelle

“Parallel to tenderness and cruelty, the cataracts of pleasure and pain are interrelated. Painful and pleasurable sensations instruct us of our physical boundaries. The collective scorecard of physical pain and pleasurable sensations define the evolving self. Our internal clockworks comprised of remembrances of times past, both painful and pleasurable, provide each of us with a telling emotional autobiography. What we primarily recall – pain or pleasure – is revelatory. How we act with kindness and tenderheartedly, or hardheartedly and cruelly is equally telling.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, 50 Ways to Become a Better Choreographer

“He took pleasure in her inconsequential talk just as he did in the sunshine and the snow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Because a child is bound to grow, society is intent upon cultivating the child’s mind to mature into a very specific type of responsible person. Children take great pleasure in small things that have no practical purpose in their dreamy world where they can be as wild as wind. Each year a part of the child dies, as it is burden with adult responsibilities.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You should be proud of the pleasure you give to others' eyes.”
― BadSquirrel, The Dark Side of the Moon

“They all hushed as Brinny, the one murderess of their crew, told them of the making of her bride cake, with primrose yellow butter and raisins of the sun, fattened on smuggled brandy. The further they sailed from England, the fonder they grew of the pleasures of home: plum trees with bowed branches, brambles in the hedge, cream from a beloved cow.”
― Martine Bailey, A Taste for Nightshade

“It is a real art to combine different types of pleasure and create a super pleasure, like reading a nice book inside a hot bathtub in an open air while the sun is setting!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There's no point in living without pleasure of living.”
― B.S. Murthy

“The small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.”
― Ramona I., Shades of simple beauty

“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person’s ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A life of detachment from greed and desires allows a person to appreciate the truly marvelous part of being alive. I cannot acquire the most sublime pleasures of life with money, force, or industry. I must learn to listen to the song of the wind, rejoice in the drumming patter of fine rain falling in a leafy forest, and delight in witnessing the coming of autumn when the leaves turn into orange and red flames. I seek sincerity of being. I hope to find comfort in a modest meal and cultivate joy by witnessing the birthing and playfulness of the young. I am no longer interested in the practical matters that businesspeople attend, exhibit no attentive awareness of political, cultural, or social affairs, and do not wish to inject myself into the warring conflicts of world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every sinuous person needs to experience the simple and pure pleasures that come from a life well lived.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Unable to face the paltriness of our lives, it is simpler to bask in a fleeting pleasure dome than labor endlessly to create worthy secular testimonies demonstrating that a life well lived does in fact have intrinsic value. Regardless of what providence has in store, dense men such as me fritter away their lives hoping to capture eroticism’s delights. It is less taxing to rummage through the garbage dump picking amidst the trash heap of life’s inglorious scandals than it is to delve into penetrating our defensive shells.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Pursue pure pleasures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There's no point of living without the pleasure of living”
― BS Murthy

“Small pleasures and little vices combine to make life happy.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“I never measure the size of my pleasure.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar