Top 1200 Worldly Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

God made all pleasures innocent.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.