Benefits Quote by John Selden

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

— Dayananda Saraswati

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

— Anonymous

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we…

— Marcel Proust

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

— Juvenal

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

— Jeremy Taylor

“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into…

— Sam Harris

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any…

— John Stuart Mill

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope