The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
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.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.