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."

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

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

"Resistance to pain is also resistance to pleasure."

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

"No profit grows where no pleasure is taken."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."