“Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”

Amos Oz (1939–2018) Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”

Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist

“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

“You are living for the sake of love and your life is not free from wanting more love or pleasure to yourself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author