Inspiring Quote by Alan Watts

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

— Eric Weiner

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

— Herbert Spencer

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

— Marianne Williamson

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

— Joseph Campbell

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain…

— John Milton

“our survival instinct, which influences the body and mind, is really just the unrealistic expectation that life is always pleasurable and never painful. Our…

— Noah Levine

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger