Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of… — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon 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
“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
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
“In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty 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
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
“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
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Then, as if he’d figured out what produced the maximum reaction in her, he switched back to Chopin. Just like that night… — Terez Mertes Rose 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
“What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and… — Mary Balogh 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
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I can imagine my fangs sinking into her soft flesh, the gasps of pain and pleasure from my bite, the way she’d… — Inger Iversen Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
