Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

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

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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.

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

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.