Felicity Quote by Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugo Black

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection…

— Samuel Johnson

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

— Anonymous

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

— Hugh Black

“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be in love…

— Marcel Proust

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the…

— Gautama Buddha

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson