Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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.
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
A string of excited fugitive miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment when the picture of one's life or of human life as it truly has been or is satisfies the will and is gladly accepted.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap there to feed and caress him in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
God made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.