People lose their pleasures because they “don’t care”. Others misuse their treasures because they “care less”. If you’ll win, you must care!

She poured out Swann’s tea, inquired “Lemon or cream?” and, on his answering “Cream, please,” said to him with a laugh: “A cloud!” And as he pronounced it excellent, “You see, I know just how...

The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Happiness is a mystery in the minds of many because they keep expecting to attain it from experiences that create pleasures.

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...

There are so many ways to seek and find pleasure, but only one way to search and gain happiness; which is through your mind.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

W-who is it?”-from Mistress of Purity

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and...

The pleasures of living is loving!

To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures

Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn’t the tunnel we pass through that matters; it’s what emerges on...

the pleasures of the damnedare limited to brief momentsof happiness:like eyes in the look of a dog,like a square of wax,like a fire taking city hall,the county,the continent,like fire taking the hairof maidens and monsters;and...

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

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall,...

As the long limousine purred to life Edwina felt as if she were Elizabeth, setting sail to battle the Spanish Armada. She was Elizabeth, damn it! What she had built no one was going to...

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...

The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

What is love when it’s not for dopamine?

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of...

But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to the pleasure which they get from finding themselves with him; much more, they...

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda’s...