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

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.