Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.