Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole. . . . The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.
One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.
God made all pleasures innocent.
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.