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
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha 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
“God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.” — Catherynne M. Valente 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
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach 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
“Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — 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
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
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
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except… — Rajneesh 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
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“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
“There is a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to… — Pema Chödrön 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
“The week passed by swiftly, like a dream…a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats. Such a breathless week when something… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. — Brian Setzer 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
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
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image