#Pleasure

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

"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)"

"Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently."

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

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

"The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?"

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect."

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

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

"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."

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

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

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

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."