Pleasure

"I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus," I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”"

"The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may."

"Finding love and friendship in one person is a real pleasure."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."

"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

"Resistance to pain is also resistance to pleasure."