One of the greatest satisfactions in life comes from getting things done and knowing you have done them to the best of your ability.

The supreme enjoyment is in satisfaction with oneself ; it is in order to deserve this satisfaction that we are placed on earth and endowed with freedom.

We crave ease, but stimulation is what really makes us happy.

True pleasure-joy, happiness and satisfaction-has been the force that helps us move beyond the constant struggle, that helps us live and generate futures beyond this dystopic present, futures worthy of our miraculous lives. Pleasure-embodied, connected pleasure-is one of the ways we know when we are free. That we are always free. That we always have the power to co-create the world.

Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.

What offers immediate pleasure comes to seem like a distraction, an empty entertainment to help pass the time. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue — and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Happiness comes from what we do. Fulfillment comes from why we do it.