And love Quote by John Gay

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…

— Paulo Coelho

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“Into the promise of happiness, synchronizing the rhythm of our lives to the turning of the leaves and the rise and fall of the…

— Jennifer Irwin

“After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of…

— William T. Vollmann

“Joy is our ultimate truth. Joy comes from the roots of our being. It comes from our deepest core. Everything else is on the periphery,…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“Find joy in the extinction of desires.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of emotions.”

— David Smith

“The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.”

— Bryant McGill

“In our modern world, we often take too much joy out of the processes we engage in by only focusing on the end result.”

— Maria B. Bourke

“The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.”

— Seneca