One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life’s greatest pleasures!

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last—genuinely down and out.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you’ve got and it will give you all it’s got, which will be plenty.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.