Pleasures Quotes

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs, or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

Dalai Lama

Compassion Happiness Gratification Pleasures...+2

Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

Dalai Lama

Mind Peace Happiness Love...+8

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

Motives Pleasures Conceal Observe

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Pleasures Wine Transitory Inspiring...+2

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

Winston Churchill

Past Descendants Pleasures Vision...+1

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

George Bernard Shaw

Eliminate Smoking Gambling Pleasures...+1

Virtuous people always let go. They don't prattle about pleasures and desires. Touched by happiness and then by suffering, The sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.