Best pleasure & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

Giving May Mean Goal Pleasure Effort Principles Becoming Giving Up Realization

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.”

Pleasure Interesting Effort Struggle

Author:Willa Cather

“Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.”

“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

Want Problem Pain Pleasure Effort Objects Amount Economics Ultimate Expenses Desirable Calculus Pain And Pleasure Undesirable

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.”

Ifs Giving Kind Stills Helping Would Be Action Heaven Simple Pleasure Effort Direct Charity If I Could Relief Spheres Greatest Pleasures

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.”

Trying Jesus Enjoy Pleasure Effort Essence Harder Enjoyment Purity Empowering Followers

Author:Sam Storms

“The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.”

Believe Sin Pleasure Effort Focus Passing Passings Obedience Satan Satisfying Deceiving

Author:Sam Storms

“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.”

Men Stills Artist Process Enjoy Pleasure Effort Objects Truth Is Succeed Highest Remains Satisfaction Theoretical Covering Discarded Uncovering

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.”

Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives

“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”

Pleasure Results Effort Beauty Seeing Fashion Missing Return Labor Surface Forfeit

Author:Roderick E. Stevens

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.”

Thinking Sometimes Life Is Pleasure Effort Strive Painful Enjoyable Stressful Sometimes In Life Agonizing Great Effort

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.”

Pleasure Effort Extraordinary Climbing Great Effort

Author:Jerzy Kukuczka

“It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.”

Actors Challenges Pleasure Effort Letting Go Liberating

Author:Juliette Binoche

“If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.”

Source: Letters to Persons in the World

“That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.”

Knows Want Might Faces Dies Causes Sin Pleasure Effort Dying Pursuit Stealing Void Face To Face Wanting To Die Aversion

Author:Nina Simone

“Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure”

Giving Pleasure Effort Intellectual Give Me Enormous

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

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