Big Difference

There's a big difference between pleasure and happiness. - Lyle

Happiness is from within, pleasure is from outside.

Love of Books

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen


I sure hope e-books don't make a full bookshelf obsolete.

Spoiler

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain


Does fishing spoil a day by the water?

Sources of Joy

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

..... Positive produces pleasure.

The Way to Health

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain

..... Simple; change your wants.

A Simple Pleasure

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Don't just take time; make time.

Home! Sweet Home!

Mid pleasures and palaces  though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. - John Howard Payne


Too often we get the abreviated verse.

Timely

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

  Be sure time put to purpose is time put to pleasure.

Just Dance

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. - Oprah Winfrey


Take advantage of opportunities.

TV Dinners

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal. - Kirby Larson


Kids who watch TV with dinner never learn the pleasures of good company or good food.

Enjoying the Pleasure

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. - Russell Baker


Misery loves company.

Real Poverty

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. - Madonna


This is why property rights are so fundamentally important.

Demand of Tomorrow

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today. - Meredith Willson


Don't take work home with you.

Serenity

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. - Thomas Szasz


Where does enthusiasm fall in all this?


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Perfect Happiness

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. - Victor Hugo 


Just as unearned wealth does not bring worth.


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Joy of the Mind

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. - Ninon de Lenclos 


If you are not happy start by looking at your mind, not your circumstances.


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Life's Requirements

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley 


Mental satisfaction takes precedence over physical satisfaction.


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Love and Friendship

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson 


 What a wonderful toast over dinner with friends and loved ones!


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What is Happiness?

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Aeschylus 

Happiness is the result of the consistent application of your values. It is a result, so it requires effort.

The Future

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. - Dean Acheson

So, enjoy each day.