Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.
He who takes his fill of every pleasure. . . becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike. . . becomes insensible.
For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.
Peasant people. . . don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.
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.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
. . . pleasure, of course, is a slippery word. . . . Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.
What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.