This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
You played with my emotions, now its like Trey's ablum Passion, Pain, and Pleasure. Now get the FUCK out my life and… — Kylee Copy Share Image
“Therefore we may safely conclude that there are no definite external causes of pain and pleasure, and that there must be internal… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they… — Marcus Aurelius 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
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We live in a day when our sense are so dull that we need extreme sports, bingeing, or dangerous pastimes to give… — Dan B. Allender 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
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson 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
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke 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
“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Mistress Isabel ties me down and pushes my limits of pain and pleasure, and I’m the one screaming out her name. True… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Memories have two qualities - pain and pleasure, if you are recalling it alone then they might give you the feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that the worst pain, fear, and torment I’ve ever experienced has only deepened my ability to experience joy. I feel… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
