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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Pleasures.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
There is more difference in the quality
of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What if happiness were found in the serenity of simple pleasures.
What if we didn't need the newest gizmo... the highest high?
What if happiness is in the air we breathe...
slowly, deeply, and consciously?
What if happiness is one fresh grape, savored with gratitude?
What if happiness is in our oneness with all creation?
What if happiness is about enjoying life exactly as it comes to us -
without chasing after it?
What if happiness is something we CHOOSE...
regardless of our circumstances?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
- The Buddha
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Liberty is to the collective body,
what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;
without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
- Thomas Jefferson
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science,
for they often endure long; but false views,
if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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