Believe Quote by Epicurus

“Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and…

— Noah Levine

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as…

— Epicurus

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity…

— Jane Roberts

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

— Anonymous

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

— John Piper

There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a…

— Gilbert Burnet

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's the flesh…

— Rosa Montero