Haunting Quote by Philip Yancey

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Anonymous

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

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and…

— Noah Levine

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

“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

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble…

— Sivananda

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

— Ian Gardner