#Pleasure

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

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

"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."

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

"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."

"Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken."

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

"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."

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often."

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated."

"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)"

"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)"

"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."

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

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

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