Here are some of our favorite quotes about pleasure, love, joy and connection. Have a favorite Pleasure Quote? Please tag us on Instagram #PleasureMechanics #PleasureQuotes
“Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth.” ~ bell hooks
“Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.” ~ adrienne maree brown
How do we heal on a level that we need to heal? How do we shift structures? How do we build power on a level that we need to, to actually feel freedom in our bodies and in our lives? -Prentis Hemphill
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ― Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. ~ Mary Oliver
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”~ Brené Brown
What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery? ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard
“Your very flesh shall be a great poem…” ~ Walt Whitman
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.” ― Walt Whitman
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames” ~ Rumi
“If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this” ~ Rumi
“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ~Pablo Neruda
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz
“And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.” ~ Hafiz
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ~ James Baldwin
“If you were here, I’d kneel for you, a thousand kisses deep.” ~ Leonard Cohen
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
“But if the pleasures of kindness — like all the greatest human pleasures — are inherently perilous, they are nonetheless some of the most satisfying we possess.” ~ Taylor and Phillips, On Kindness
“Best to plunge in. Once in the fire one is bathed in sweetness. Honestly: here I am, in it.” Hélène Cixous