happiness on Pleasure

In a July 2014 New York Times article about happiness, author Arthur C. Brooks quotes tenth-century Moorish king Abd Al-Rahman III, who assumed his throne as a young man and enjoyed tangible abundance...

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered…What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then-that is the real meeting. The other is only...

We aim for happiness but we settle for pleasure…which is only momentary.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.