Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
“That's only because what we have is deep. Its pain and pleasure mixed into one.” — C.C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Animals' pain and pleasure are akin to yours and mine, and their will to live is just as strong.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
“It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba 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
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert 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
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I love you because… wait… I take a drag from my pipe… I really don’t know. I think that’s the beauty of… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“First, anything that afflicts the inner being is a disease. The inner being is the one that experiences pain and pleasure, joy… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
“You've got the wrong girl." "On the contrary..." the voice murmured, "I've got exactly the girl I want." Her body turned to… — Richie Tankersley Cusick Copy Share Image
“I know him, that man walking- toward me up the crowded street of the city, I have lived with him seven years… — Susan Browne Copy Share Image
“Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of… — Francione, Gary L 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
“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
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image