happiness”. It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention...

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

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.

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

Our country in general assumes that “the pursuit of happiness” really means “the pursuit of pleasure” and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in...

A woman isn’t a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.

There is no other company in the world I’ve found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is...

The main question to a novel is — did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit...

There’s always a glamour of pain even in pleasure.

I’ve done a whole lot of things. I’ve had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

Il existe depuis très longtemps une immense secte d’imbéciles qui opposent sensualité et intelligence. C’est un cercle vicieux : ils se privent de volupté pour exalter leurs capacités intellectuelles, ce qui a pour résultat de...

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Take your pleasure seriously.

If I didn’t care for fun and such,I’d probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not...

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

The only thing that I’m obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

I don’t want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of...

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is...

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

did you have to do it?

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.

Altruism is for thosewho can’t endure their desires.There’s a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime.It’s where we could live.I’ll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those...

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Oh, keep your warnings and your fears for those giddy women who call themselves women of feeling, whose heated imaginations persuade them that nature has placed their senses in their heads; who, having never thought...

One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless...

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share.

What is another person’s pleasure is another’s poison.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and...

I have received the pilgrim—a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine.

After deciding to retire it was a pleasure to recommend David James — so I know the position is in safe hands,

I get a pleasure from sharing the information I find with others that I publish in the books.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human...

Led Zeppelin album without the pleasure principle.

He was great. It was a pleasure to see that ball coming out of his hand and into my mitt. It was gorgeous.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in...

Pleasure is all relative.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to...

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you...

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from...