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Pleasure Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both?…
- Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your…
- Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
- So through identification you have pleasure and pain.
- Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
- 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…
- Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
- To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
- The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac