The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.