Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus

Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure.

...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you.