A quote from The Prophet

And I saw that nothing is better than that man should rejoice in his works, for that is his share, for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

pleasure is the domain of the feminine.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.