Cheerfulness Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is…

— Voltaire

“What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?”

— Darrin M. McMahon

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.”

— Douglas Carlton Abrams

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

— Bruce Feiler

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

— Plato

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

— Juvenal

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

— Muriel Wace