Perspective Quote by Gordon Dahlquist

“the time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure…

— Seneca

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

“in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment. All this is passing before our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Without patience and interest, one will only have access to immediate pleasures—which are good, but much lower in quality than the pleasures gained over…

— Olivier Magny

“An important element in the pleasure we derive from social meetings, from travels, from sight-seeings, etc., is nothing but change. Even intellectual pleasure consists…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“An attitude that avoids enjoyment today only means an evasion of happiness forever. Happiness becomes something for tomorrow and therefore ever elusive.”

— Art Berg

“...happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to…

— Arnold Bennett

“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

“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”

— Allan Lokos

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

— Charles Eames

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius