Compassion Quote by Sam Harris

“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast…

— Hiram Crespo

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with…

— Bertrand Russell

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 sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus

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

It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Anonymous

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Dayananda Saraswati