Art Quote by Luke Slattery

“For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.”

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Ingratitude is a bad habit by which we needlessly punish ourselves. When we no longer have the things we enjoy, we miss them and…

— Hiram Crespo

“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness,…

— Washington Irving

“There is a distinction between going after desirable things in life and needing them for our happiness. We can go after those things with…

— Hiram Crespo

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

“And it is partly the transience of it that delights me; so much loving preparation, so much art and experience, put into a pleasure…

— Joanne Harris

“Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.”

— Cheryl Richardson

“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person…

— John Tillotson

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Marcel Proust

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;…

— Thomas More

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

— Epicurus