Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that too at the expense of social pleasure health conscience life.

According to your sympathy you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

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.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

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.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.