There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our… — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
“Do you know what passion is?” I blink, confused. “Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that’s not… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“First, there’s what we called the emotional side. It’s the part of you that is instinctive, that feels pain and pleasure. Second,… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“His mouth comes down on mine, harder now, more demanding, a raw, hungry need in him rising to the surface. “You belong… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“No matter what these one-sided observers' opinion may be, we are certain that we experience good as well as evil, and feel… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others. Human life—that appeared to him the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are… — Plato Copy Share Image
