Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
— Baltasar Gracian
Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.
— Gabrielle Zevin
You can please yourself without pleasuring yourself, but you cannot pleasure yourself without pleasing yourself.
— Gabbo De La Parra
Never deny yourself any pleasure, real or imaginary.
— Marty Rubin
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
— Napoleon Hill
You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.
— Meat Loaf
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
— John Ruskin
pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.
— Lama Surya Das
What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong. — Ameya Agrawal
it is a pleasure, a kind of mild masochism, to have all the beautiful things belong to someone you love and none to yourself. — Fletcher Flora
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure. — Peggy Orenstein
Show me how you pleasure yourself. — E.L. James
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. — Joan Didion
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Irvin D. Yalom
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men. — Thomas A Kempis
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off. — Allen Carr
Lie down there in the shade and sleep, and I will soon build the castle for you. If it would be a pleasure to you, you can live in it yourself. — Jacob Grimm
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it. — Patience Strong
I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure — Renee Rose
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you. — Thomas Jefferson
You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures. — Mireille Guiliano
Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief? — Sophocles
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them. — Alain Badiou
Mister Vance, what a fine pleasure. Welcome to my home. Please, keep those quick fingers of yours to yourself though, sir." As — Pippa DaCosta
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. — Baruch Spinoza
When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that. — Cise Star
To foresee pleasures makes anybody a poet ... to seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate. — Elizabeth Bowen
For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself. — J.P.V.D. Balsdon
Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase. — Domenico Scarlatti
I can take care of myself," I said hotly."Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself. — Nenia Campbell
Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies. — Jennifer Grey
The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you. — Sunday Adelaja
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? — Horace
Life's not about the moments of pleasure you, yourself can experience. It's about pleasurable moments you share with someone else that really matter. — Tammy Falkner
