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Pleasure is satisfaction and enjoyment

• Pleasure: A feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment. Oxford Dictionary
• Pleasure: Enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one’s liking; gratification; delight.  Dictionary.com
• Pleasure: a feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction: a pleasant or pleasing feeling.  Merriam Webster
• Hedonism,  Enjoyment,  Fun,  Desire,  Addiction,  Cravings,  Enjoyment,  Savouring,  Pain

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Life is a mixture of pleasure and pain

• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. Louis Adamic
• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.  Luigi Pirandello
• Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. Neil Gaiman
• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. John Selden
• Every act by which pleasure is reaped, without any result of pain, is pure gain to happiness; every act whose results of pain are less than the results of pleasure, is good, to the extent of the balance in favour of happiness. Jeremy Bentham
• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle
• We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. Albert Einstein
• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? Samuel Johnson
• Pleasure is life, and pain is death. Minot Judson Savage
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Pleasure and pain have a strong basis in evolution

• The pleasure-pain mechanism in the body of man–and in the bodies of all the living organisms that possess the faculty of consciousness–serves as an automatic guardian of the organism’s life. The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right course of action. The physical sensation of pain is a warning signal of danger, indicating that the organism is pursuing the wrong course of action, that something is impairing the proper function of its body. Ayn Rand
• Pleasure is not an epiphenomenon, a lucky happenstance of neurons being in the right place and firing at the right time. It has evolved to serve a very specific and adaptive set of functions from our distant past. The genes that encourage the expression and feeling of pleasure are success stories of natural selection–they are still around. Therefore, in our quest to understand the psychological, biological, and cultural foundations of pleasure in the modern world, we must consider what problems pleasure solved for our ancestors. If the pleasures did not provide a functional solution to some selection factors faced by our earlier brethren, the genes that shape their expression and feeling would be long gone, into the dustbin of ecological time like most others. Gene Wallenstein
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Experiencing pleasure in life is a deep human need

• Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. Pierre de Beaumarchais
• Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. Lionel Tiger
• Pleasure is the structure of society. From childhood until death we are secretly, cunningly or obviously pursuing pleasure. So whatever our form of pleasure is, I think we should be very clear about it because it is going to guide and shape our lives. It is therefore important for each one of us to investigate closely, hesitantly and delicately this question of pleasure, for to find pleasure, and then nourish and sustain it, is a basic demand of life and without it existence becomes dull, stupid, lonely and meaningless. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by- day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel–until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion. Ayn Rand
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Pleasure adds spice to life

• How much pleasure will you allow yourself? Many people have an invisible quota in their minds for the amount of joy they will permit themselves to experience. They become so busy living life that they view pleasure as a luxury they simply do not have time for. Things like lovemaking or playing take a backseat to the everyday motions of living. However, your life simply will not work as well when you deny yourself pleasure. The old adage of all work and no play making you dull is quite true; you may find yourself living a rather colorless life if you do not pause every now and then to indulge your senses. Pleasure is like the oil that keeps the machine of your life running smoothly. Without it, the gears stick and you will most likely break down. Cherie Carter- Scott
• Pleasure is the Divine seasoning in the diet of life. Lewis F. Korns
• Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. Epictetus

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Without pleasure, life would be dreary and dull

• Without pleasure there is no sight or measure. Dejan Stojanovic
• What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure – as a mere automaton of duty? Friedrich Nietzsche
• Without pleasure, existence becomes dull, stupid, lonely and meaningless. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Pleasure can contribute to happiness

• Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. Epicurus
• Every act by which pleasure is reaped, without any result of pain, is pure gain to happiness; every act whose results of pain are less than the results of pleasure, is good, to the extent of the balance in favour of happiness. Jeremy Bentham
• Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. Jeremy Bentham
• Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. Oscar Wilde
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Make time for pleasure in your life

• Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Voltaire
• Man’s sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible. Susan Hubbard
• If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress the desire. Seek it intelligently. Huston Smith
• Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. Arthur Adamov
• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure. Epictetus

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Get to know what gives you pleasure

• It is therefore important for each one of us to investigate closely, hesitantly and delicately this question of pleasure, for to find pleasure, and then nourish and sustain it, is a basic demand of life and without it existence becomes dull, stupid, lonely and meaningless. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• Pleasure and pain seem to have been accidentally cast in the same mold. Lewis F. Korns
• People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. Marcel Proust
• Do what you love,  Self-knowledge

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Experience pleasure through fulfilling your deepest needs and desires

• As an experience, pleasure is … a filling up of the cup, the supplying of a need. And the deeper the draft upon vital resources, the greater the fulfilment of desire. William Ernest Hocking
• Pleasure is not a thing, but a sensation caused by the fitting together of desire and accomplishment. Herbert Maxwell
• Pleasure is a harmony–that is, a fitting together–a fitting of an external object with a mood or want within ourselves. Herbert Maxwell
• Desire,  Fulfilment

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Take the time to savour pleasure …

• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard
• Savouring,  Savour life’s simple joys

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…especially the simple pleasures in life

• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. A.H. Maslow
• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Norman Lear
• Take pleasure in the senses. Focus on the sweetness of the ripe mango, the aroma of the bakery, or the warmth of the sun when you step out from the shade.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Learn how to appreciate and take pleasure in mundane, everyday experiences like eating a meal, taking a shower or walking to the subway. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.   Robin S. Sharma
• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde
• Instead of waiting for the big things to happen – marriage, kids, big promotion, winning the lottery – find happiness in the small things that happen every day. Little things like having a quiet cup of coffee in the early morning, or the delicious taste and smell of a homemade meal, or the pleasure of sharing something you enjoy with someone else or holding hands with your partner. Noticing these small pleasures on a daily basis makes a big difference in the quality of your life.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin
• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. Richard Fuller
• That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Harold J. Smith
• That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau
• Life is in the little things,  Simple living

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Enjoy pleasure by being present in the moment

• The more we go in the direction of Essence and away from the ego, the more pleasure we experience, because pleasure is largely dependent on how present we are to whatever we are doing. Anything can be pleasurable if we are present to it without the interference of the egoic mind. The simplest things are pleasurable when we are present to them, even things we generally don’t like. Being present is one of the secrets to happiness. The more we drop out of our egoic mind and into our senses, the more pleasure our senses deliver. Pleasure actually points the way Home. Gina Lake
• Pleasure is a hedonistic reflex, a burning impulse to abandon rational thought altogether and immerse oneself in the moment. Gene Wallenstein
• The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. Raoul Vaneigem
• Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. Jane Austen
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Make time and space for pleasure by opening your senses

• Your body can be one of the greatest sources of pleasure when you open your five senses fully and experience the physical wonder of being alive. Pleasure can come in the form of sight, like when you see a magnificent sunset, or taste, like when you eat a favorite food. It can come as a glorious musical sound or the soft touch of a lover. The only secret to learning the lesson of pleasure is to make time and space for it in your life. Cherie Carter-Scott
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Relax into pleasure rather than grasping at it

• Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking- nation, but not necessarily a pleasure- seeking one….This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.  Elizabeth Gilbert
• Letting go,  Relaxation

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Enjoy the pleasures of today

• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen
• He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows: he breathes but does not live. Proverb
• Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Pierre Bonnard
• Enjoyment,  Embrace the gift of today

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Be open to spontaneous, unexpected pleasures

• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odors from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Samuel Johnson
• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. Germaine Greer
• There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. Max Eastman
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Find pleasure in variety

• Pleasure is none, if not diversified. Donne, John
• Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn
• Repetition only extinguishes pleasure. Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan
• No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. Publius Syrus
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Share pleasure with others

• Your partner’s pleasure is your pleasure. Judy Ford & Rachel Greene Baldino
• We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give. Alexandre Dumas
• Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Lord Chesterfield
• We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. John Petit-Senn
• Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power. Aldous Huxley
• They that seldom take pleasure, seldom give pleasure. Fulke Greville
• Many know how to please but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure. Arthur Helps
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Use pleasure to exalt your life, not simply as a distraction or stimulant

• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. Rainer Maria Rilke

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Take pleasure in anticipation

• Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. David Hume
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Take pleasure in happy memories

• Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. Jean de Boufflers
• A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. C. S. Lewis
• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen
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Take pleasure in what you already have

• The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more. Traditional Proverb
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Take pleasure in your work for your success depends on it

• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. Michael Korda
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Be aware that pleasure can come at a price …

• The highway of pleasure is crossed by many toll-gates. Lewis F. Korns
• As a grim skull lies covered beneath the fairest face; so does an abyss of torment lie beneath the surface of the glittering sea of sensual pleasure and dissipation. William Scott Downey
• Pleasure is the sun of the morning, the cloud of the meridian, and the storm of the evening. William Scott Downey
• True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
• All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink: Each has his share; and who would more obtain, shall find the pleasure pays not half the pain. Alexander Pope
• This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. Rumi
• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. Honore de Balzac
• The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. Madame De Lambert

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… often in the form of pain afterwards …

• Man will endure a lot of pain to obtain a little pleasure.
• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. Michelangelo
• Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. Samuel Johnson
• Every pleasure or emotional high contains within itself the seed of pain: it’s inseparable opposite, which will manifest in time. Eckhart Tolle
• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. Pierre Charron
• Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. Proverb
• When will pleasure crash with regret? Terri Guillemets
• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. William Cowper
• Even though the pursuit of pleasure is part of the American dream–an unassailable right–it is a guilt-ridden hunt. Pala Copeland & Al Link
• A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Edward Young
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… especially if you over-indulge …

• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Democritus
• This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. Rumi
• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. Seneca
• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. Criss Jami
• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. William Cowper
• He that would have the perfection of pleasure, must be moderate in the use of it. Benjamin Whichcote
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… and become addicted

• We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. Sydney J. Harris
• Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? Susan Gordon Lydon
• For some, pleasure is a fever they can’t shake… Terri Guillemets
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Pain and pleasure are very closely linked

• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Marina Warner
• A young man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young
• Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. Horace Mann
• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. Amos Bronson Alcott
• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. Pierre Charron
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. Arnold Bennett
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An excess of pleasure palls the appetite rather than pleases it

• To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. Charles Buxton
• We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. Bernard de Fontenelle
• Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much. William Cowper
• The excess if delight palls our appetites rather than pleases. Wellins Calcott
• In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Marcus T. Cicero
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A life devoted to non-stop pleasure holds no pleasure

• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller
• A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it– when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine. H. Chapin

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Many argue that pleasure is the death of virtue …

• Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure. Lord Byron
• He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. Bible
• A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
• Pleasure’s couch is virtue’s grave. Augustine J. Duganne
• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato
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… and that pleasure can be a form of poison

• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Edwards Tryon

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Others disagree

• For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure –tangible material prosperity in this world — is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. Samuel Butler
• Pleasure is nought but virtue’s gayer name–I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow’r. Edward Young
• The fact that all animals and men pursue pleasure is some indication that it is in some way the highest good. Aristotle
• Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. Oscar Wilde

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The truth is that pleasure can be both wholesome and unwholesome, depending on its nature and degree

• Pleasure is not a thing, but a sensation caused by the fitting together of desire and accomplishment. There is such a thing as honey, but there is no such thing as sweetness, until contact takes place between the tongue and some object capable of imparting to the gustative papillae that sensation which we call sweetness. For moralists, therefore, to rail against pleasure is as irrational as it would be for physicians to warn people against sweetness; there are wholesome things that taste sweet as well as unwholesome, there are noble and holy sources of pleasure as well as ignoble and unclean. In pursuing pleasure men are trying to grasp a phantom–in declaiming against it they are beating the air; the important thing is what is the nature of desire? For it is of the union of desire and accomplishment that pleasure is born, and the nature of the offspring depends on its parentage. Herbert Maxwell

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The secret is to enjoy pleasure in moderation without becoming attached to it

• Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. Seneca
• So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. Seneca
• Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess. Brandon Sanderson
• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Democritus
• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. Criss Jami
• The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. Aristippus
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Becoming attached to a pleasure makes you a slave to it

• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus
• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin
• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson
• Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure. Virgil
• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Epictetus
• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell. Ursula K. Le Guin
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Realise that real happiness is far deeper than simple pleasure

• Pleasure is a river running to the sea; happiness is the full, calm sea. Peter Kreeft
• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan
• Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. Josh Billings
• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. Joseph Addison
• Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. Muhammad Ali
• Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Blaise Pascal
• Pleasure is the last resort of the desperate. Happy people do not need to be amused. Thomas Carlyle
• Happiness,  Contentment

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Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside

• Pleasure is great – but it doesn’t last. Pleasure comes from your five senses. From a great meal, a nice glass of wine and a new car. Nothing wrong with these things – they make the experience of life better. But they are fleeting… Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It’s a state you create by choice. It’s a decision. It’s an act of will. People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There’s no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.   Robin Sharma
• Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside. Remez Sasson
• Pleasure is an attempt to fill yourself. Joy is what you are.  Byron Katie

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Pleasure comes from the senses, happiness from the soul

• If hedonic happiness is the happiness of the senses, then eudaemonic happiness is the happiness of the soul. It is found in activities that are aligned with our fundamental human needs for meaning, connection, and personal growth, and it brings a sense of engagement, contentment, and fulfillment. This is the happiness we feel when we spend time with loved ones and when we grow as people. Unlike with hedonic happiness, time spent in eudemonic pursuits fundamentally changes us, allowing us to flourish and grow as individuals and as communities. Craig & Marc Kielburger
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Joy too is different from pleasure

• Joy is something entirely different from pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. Jalal-Uddin Rumi
• Pleasure’s a Moth, that sleeps by day and dances by false glare at night; but Joy’s a Butterfly, that loves to spread its wings in Nature’s light. William Henry Davies
• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Eckhart Tolle
• Passing pleasures do but cloy and ape the consciousness of joy. William Batchelder Greene
• A pleasant and happy life does not come from external things. Man draws from within himself, as from a spring, pleasure and joy. Plutarch
• Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live. Thomas Merton
• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. S. Lewis
• Joy is the happiness of love–love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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Pleasure tends to be fleeting, while happiness and joy last far longer

• Pleasure is the flower that fades. Stanislas Jean De Marquis Boufflers
• But pleasures are like poppies spread–You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river–A moment white — then melts for ever. Robert Burns
• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. Amos Bronson Alcott
• Pleasure is a crumbling statue. Edward Counsel
• What is painful in pleasure? It is that in all pleasure a person desires eternity but knows that pleasure is transient and will end. Edward Young
• Life is fleeting,  Impermanence

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Don’t allow the pursuit of pleasure to distract you from attaining true happiness and joy

• Although hedonic pleasures have their place, it is crucial that we don’t allow them to distract or discourage us from pursuing the deeper sense of well-being that only eudaemonic happiness can bring. When we pursue this kind of happiness, we reach beyond ourselves, moving from a mentality of Me toward an appreciation of We. In our experience, this is a process that begins when you find the courage to re-examine your goals and values, the patience to look for the meaning in what you do, and the inner strength necessary to live a life of purpose. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• Happiness,  Pleasure

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Don’t let your pleasures today spoil your long term well- being

• There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron’s serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure. Charles Caleb Colton
• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Seneca
• So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. Seneca
• Temporary happiness isn’t worth long-term pain.
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Don’t sacrifice your inner peace for worldly pleasures

• One path leads outward and the other inward. You can walk the way outward that leads to pleasure or the way inward that leads to grace. Katha Upanishad
• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid
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Don’t allow pleasure to distract you from finding meaning or use it to escape from reality

• When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure. Victor Frankl
• For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. Nathaniel Branden
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Be willing to delay short term pleasure for your longer term happiness

• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. Joshua Loth Liebman
• The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. Zig Ziglar
• We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. Horace Mann

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• Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. Chinese Proverb
• The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick The Great
• Scratching is one of nature’s sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. Michel Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne
• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. Warren Buffett
• Work is often the father of pleasure. Voltaire
• Productivity over pleasure, It is a pleasure being productive. Jvongard
• Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. Lucretius
• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe
• The highest pleasure is only consciousness of freedom from the deepest pain. James Parton
• When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not. Christian Nestell Bovee
• All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation. Owen Felltham
• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Little
• The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo

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Weigh up the pleasure and the pain when deciding on a course of action

• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful. Plato
• I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. Michel Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne
• Every act by which pleasure is reaped, without any result of pain, is pure gain to happiness; every act whose results of pain are less than the results of pleasure, is good, to the extent of the balance in favour of happiness. Jeremy Bentham
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Business and pleasure can be mixed – or can they?

• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him. Evremond
• Business is always interfering with pleasure-but it makes other pleasures possible. William Feather
• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. Aaron Burr
• Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business. Raymond Hitchcock
• When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. American Proverb
• Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. Fulke Greville

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Thought and memory give vitality to pleasure

• The pleasure of any incident, whether it is of a sunset, or sexual, or any sensory pleasure, is recorded and thought over. So thought as pleasure plays a tremendous part in our life. Something happened yesterday which was a most lovely thing, a most happy event, it is recorded; thought comes upon it, chews it and keeps on thinking about it and wants it repeated tomorrow, whether it be sexual or otherwise. So thought gives vitality to an incident that is over. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. Alexander Woollcott
• It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés. Eric Weiner
• Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce
• A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.  Groucho Marx
• As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex except for salami and eggs; now that’s better than sex but only if the salami is thickly sliced.  Alan King
• Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.   Alfred Hitchcock
• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde
• I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.  Voltaire
• It’s a double pleasure to trick the trickster.
• Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.  Samuel Johnson
• One of the minor pleasures of life is to be slightly ill.
• One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.  Chinese proverb
• Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Lord Chesterfield
• The honeymoon is over when he gives up the pleasure of your company for the company of his pleasure. Bill Copeland
• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. Bertrand Russell
• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Andrew Jackson
• There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. John Mortimer
• One of life’s most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; one of life’s least appreciated pleasures is defecation. Mark Twain

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