#pleasures

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#bring #come #gained #happiness #little

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#age #almost #any #completes #costs

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#inspirational #pearls #pleasures #simple #inspirational

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. ↗

— Tibor Fischer

#life

The smile, the look, tugged at Eleanor's heart. Even in the fleeting glance, she'd seen great love in Ian's eyes, his determination to finish this letter and send it to Beth so she could enjoy decoding it. A way to tell her sweet nothings that no one else could understand. Private thoughts, shared between husband and wife. ↗

— Jennifer Ashley

#love

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lie #life #moderation #pleasures #ring

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friendship #good #lasting #manly #pleasures

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

#come #drunk #glorious #i #manly

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

#pleasures #tax