It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.