pleasure

Pleasure

Aristotle said: among all the feelings that can be experienced, pleasure is perhaps the most appropriate to our species. Each pleasure is unique to the act it completes, and this special pleasure also increases the energy of the act itself. Things are appreciated and judged better, and they are practiced with more precision when the pleasure with which they are done is greater.

In the Mandala of Emotions pleasure belongs to the family of passions. Joy is a great passion because it is situated on the vertical axis of the mandala. Pleasure is the mean between delivery and possession. Euphoria and anger The flip side of joy is suffering.

Emotions are expressed in a balanced or unbalanced way. This depends on the mode, the occasion and the duration of the emotion. joy when balanced leads to success, but when it is excessive or deficient in performance, it leads to failure.

When pleasure is excessive:

Don't spend so much time chasing the great pleasures in life while neglecting the little ones.

We judge many pains better than pleasures because a greater pleasure is obtained for us.

The most intolerable suffering is the one that produces the prolongation of the most intense pleasure.

The intemperate go beyond fair limits and enjoy as the rudest people can.

Violent joy has a violent end and dies in its ecstasy like fire and gunpowder, which, when united, explode.

The intemperate, when he is carried away by the pleasures that dominate him, does not really have science, and only has a simple opinion.

Do not take a bite of the bite of pleasure until you are sure it is not hooked.

When pleasures are exaggerated, they turn into pain.

Our pleasures are nothing but vanity.

The fury with which today's world seeks pleasure proves that it lacks it.

Pleasure is an incitement to vileness.

He who exaggeratedly pursues pleasures, due to his free determination, is incontinent and dissolute.

You don't have to look for all the pleasures today, but you have to look for all the pleasures of today.

Sometimes depraved tastes are instinctive and other times the product of habits acquired since childhood

Those who are loquacious destroy the pleasure of conversation.

Hedonism in pleasure becomes outburst.

When pleasure is deficient:

Why do the sad memories of lost pleasure come back to me?

Addiction is nothing more than a very degraded substitute for a true experience of joy.

When selfishness is a term of censorship, those who arrogate the best part of bodily pleasures are called selfish.

Flee the pleasures that breed sadness.

You have to enjoy everything, but without getting attached to anything.

It is a great sin to deprive yourself of a pleasure.

If the soul is preoccupied with feeling shame and getting over it, it cannot feel pleasure.

Put high demands on yourself and expect little from others. This way you will save trouble.

Don't confuse pleasure with happiness. Sometimes they are not distinguished.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take time to enjoy the beauty of life.

Revenge is always a pleasure for narrow, sick and shrinking spirits.

Love only seeks to please itself, and chain the other to its delight.

The pleasures of love are evils that are left to be desired, where sweetness and martyrdom coincide, and love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise and celestial hell.

How much of our lives we could enjoy if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets.

Choose your pleasures for yourself and don't let them impose on you.

Intelligence is nothing without pleasure.

There is no pleasure that lasts if it is not revived by variety.

The same inattention occurs when trying to do two things at once, the more pleasant act inevitably disturbing the other.

When pleasure is balanced:

Whoever mixes the pleasant with the useful will win everyone's approval.

The supreme pleasure is to get what you want.

Anything can be enjoyed when one is firmly determined to do so.

The ultimate pleasure is getting what you want.

Satisfaction is the only sign of the sincerity of pleasure.

When it comes to pleasure, you have to use all your senses.

The richest is he whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Take your pleasures seriously.

It is not a thirsty mouth, nor an empty outstretched hand. But, rather, a burning heart and an enchanted soul.

Pleasure is the object, the duty and the end of every rational being.

The soul full of sweet pleasure cannot be stained.

The greatest pleasure, without a mixture of annoyance, is rest.

We call it Dolce far niente: The pleasure of doing nothing.

Beauty is an emotional element, a pleasure that is ours and yet we consider it as a quality of things.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem brief.

The greatest pleasure in life is to do what everyone says you can't do.

Pleasure and art consist in consciously abandoning oneself to that beneficent unconsciousness.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of all likes and dislikes.

There is pleasure in all things in life, if you know how to savor them.

Enjoy life and help others live a life worth enjoying.

The secret pleasure of a generous act is the greatest pleasure of a high spirit.

Pure friendship knows of pleasures that mediocre souls can never enjoy.

Moderate pleasures loosen the tension of the spirit and temper it.

There are pleasures that are not necessary, but are worth seeking for themselves.

The sentences of this article are distributed throughout the Oracle of the Soul.

The sentences of this article are distributed throughout the Oracle of the Soul.

Author: Adrian Casasnovas ©