From the song 'Cool It Now' by New Edition:

There's one more thing that you got to know,
Just cool it down and stay in control.
You got to cool it now,
You're gonna lose control.
Cool it now,
You got to slow it down,
You're gonna fall in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZUq6N7Gx1c

"He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible."
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

"How much pleasure will you allow yourself? Many people have an invisible quota in their minds for the amount of joy they will permit themselves to experience. They become so busy living life that they view pleasure as a luxury they simply do not have time for. Things like lovemaking or playing take a backseat to the everyday motions of living. However, your life simply will not work as well when you deny yourself pleasure. The old adage of all work and no play making you dull is quite true; you may find yourself living a rather colorless life if you do not pause every now and then to indulge your senses. Pleasure is like the oil that keeps the machine of your life running smoothly. Without it, the gears stick and you will most likely break down."
- Cherie Carter-Scott, If Life Is a Game

"There are people who cannot enjoy a pleasure unless they have first persuaded themselves that it is a duty. They are perhaps the most confirmed hedonists of all, for they are not content to enjoy without the added delight of conscious rectitude."
- John William MacKail, On Giving Advice

"For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch."
- Terri Guillemets

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Which do you think is worse: too much pleasure or too little? Some people actually deprive themselves of pleasure.

Song 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' by The Rolling Stones:
https://youtu.be/nrIPxlFzDi0

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure."
- Russell Baker

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot

"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
- Aldous Huxley   

Variety is the spice of life......

"The great source of pleasure is variety."
- Samuel Johnson

"There are people who cannot enjoy a pleasure unless they have first persuaded themselves that it is a duty. They are perhaps the most confirmed hedonists of all, for they are not content to enjoy without the added delight of conscious rectitude."
- John William MacKail, On Giving Advice

"Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden."
- Chinese proverb

"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."
- Henry Louis Mencken

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What gives you pleasure or satisfaction?

Life is difficult. We are all seeking pleasure and happiness (& that point when we exhale)....

Song 'Exhale' by Whitney Houston (from the soundtrack for the movie 'Waiting to Exhale'):

Sometimes you'll laugh,
Sometimes you'll cry,
Life never tells us the when's or why's.
When you've got friends to wish you well,
You'll find a point when you will exhale.

https://youtu.be/wrTuV4Szxzo

"When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth."
- Darrin M. McMahon, Happiness: A History

"Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs."
- Josh Billings   

"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."
- Albert Einstein

"Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul."
- Epicurus

"The fact that all animals and men pursue pleasure is some indication that it is in some way the highest good."
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

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We all seek pleasure to be happy, but happiness does not come from pleasure only.

Song 'Just Can't Get Enough' by The Black Eyed Peas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTyD7rjBpw

"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil."
- Plato

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads."
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

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Things tempt us because they offer pleasure and happiness. There may be more than meets the eye.

Theme for the week 3/6 - 3/12: Pleasure, which follows last week's theme Temptation.