Antidote Quote by Marianne de Pierres

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey

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

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

“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

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

— Ian Gardner

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

— Marcus Aurelius

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one…

— Viktor E. Frankl