Pleasurable Experiences Quotes & Sayings

Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones. — Daniel M. Gilbert

If he can be call'd meek
who has no wishes
or hiding who needs never
be found
or scared who never
attacks
forgotten, who watches up
the night
If he can be called "he,"
who has no self
Writes "One is All"
On every wall. — Jack Kerouac

This is the first truth to be learned in life: that you are always responsible, nobody else. With that comes great freedom, because with that all alternatives are open. If you think that somebody else is responsible then you are a slave; then nothing is open. Then you have to be what you are. If your life is a tragedy then it has to be a tragedy, because others are responsible; unless they change, nothing can be done about it. You don't have any freedom. And that is the reason why millions of people live in misery: they think others are creating their misery. Nobody is creating your misery, nobody can create it; and nobody can create your bliss either. It is a totally individual phenomenon. It is just your work upon yourself. And the most strange thing is: to create misery is difficult and to create bliss is easy, but people always choose the difficult thing, because the difficult thing always gives them an ego-trip. — Osho

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction. — I.L. Peretz

Equally unsettling was the discovery that the country's major political parties were being financed by those same corporations. Congress and — Robert E Mutch

I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn. — Morris Gleitzman

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. — Herman Melville

Hope is the mainspring of life. — Henry L. Stimson

Did anyone ever tell you that you're completely inappropriate?"
"They have. And you know, I had a little talk with myself about it. It turns out I'm cool with it. — Shelly Crane

God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians. — Adrian Rogers

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences. — Zoe Lister-Jones

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do. — Jonathan Frid

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. — Thomas More

This is my seventh decade ... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again ... songs with which I have had a great relationship. — Eddy Arnold

our first experiences of pleasurable solitude teach us how to be content by ourselves and shape the conditions in which we seek it. — Kate Bolick

I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life. — Gloria Stuart

One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it. — Tony Robbins

It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in. — Victor Cruz

To go fishing is one of the most pleasurable experiences I can imagine. — Fennel Hudson

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training. — Aldous Huxley