"For pleasure is a state of soul,..." - Quote by Aristotle

“If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.”

“Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.”

“Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .”

“All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.”

“We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.”

“Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.”

“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”

“There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilitieswaiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.”

“People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.”