"My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?"
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"Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.''Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.''When are we happy?''When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.''What is regret?''To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.''What is sorrow?''To long for the past.''What is the highest pleasure?''To hear a good story."
"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."
"Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925."
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure."
"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."
"Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken."
"He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)"
"In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace."
"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23"
"The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things."
"Success, if I simply gave it to you, you wouldn’t have the pleasure of taking it."
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."