Caution Quote by Sigmund Freud

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving…

— Bertrand Russell

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

“Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers…

— Stephen R. Covey

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the…

— James Stephens

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims…

— Herbert Marcuse

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

— David Guerrero

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden

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

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 are all in “the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important—which burns at the edge of addiction.”

— Jana Richman