#Pleasure

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."

"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23"

"Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove"

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

"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)"

"So sweet and delicious do I become,when I am in bed with a manwho, I sense, loves and enjoys me,that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,so the knot of love, however tightit seemed before, is tied tighter still."

"The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things."

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

"My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?"

"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."

"Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken."

"If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)"

"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

"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."

"Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be."

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."