#pleasures

"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."

"After all,"Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."