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  • 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.

    George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”
  • Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

    Happiness   Reality   May  
  • True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  • The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  • Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.

    Pain   Men   Profound  
  • There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

    Happiness   Gleam   Taste  
    Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  • Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”
  • But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

  • Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

    Fun   Pleasure   Pursue  
  • I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

    John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

    Emma ch. 30 (1816)
  • Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

    Teacher   Pain   Mistake  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama
  • Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

    Happiness   Happy   Dog  
  • Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

    Flow   Poppies   Pleasure  
    'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59
  • If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

    Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist
  • Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  • Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  • The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

    Happiness   Peace   Work  
  • Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

    Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
  • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

    "Everyday Life in the Modern World".
  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

    "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".
  • True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

    Fall   Rivers   White  
    'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59
  • A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

    Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272
  • Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

    Reading   Sadness   Alive  
  • Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

    Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”
  • Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

    Fall   Rivers   White  
    Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan
  • Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

    Love   Fun   Too Much  
    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

    Life   Happiness   Men  
    Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336
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