If you get hung up on pleasure, you’re doomed. If you pursue joy, you will get everlasting happiness.George Lucas
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.Lewis Grizzard
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.James Naismith
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has greatly reduced the chances of having any fun.Pope Paul VI
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.Ina Garten
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.Anthony Bourdain
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.Pope Paul VI
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.Michael Korda
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.Salvador Dalí
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.Lord Byron
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen
If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.Richard Feynman
Reading was my escape, my relief, and my solace, my favorite stimulant: reading for pure pleasure, for the beautiful stillness that envelops you when you hear an author's words in your head.Lauren Oliver
Not all knowledge needs to be useful. Sometimes it should be pursued for pure pleasure.Walter Isaacson
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.Patrick Rothfuss
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.Viktor E. Frankl
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.Virginia Woolf