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
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi 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
“I used to be a blanket - without seams - a silk cocoon of happy dreams. Now I'm a quilt, no square… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
“Feeling pleasure and pain, a sweet mixture that left you breathless and begging for more.” — Jennifer Culbreth Copy Share Image
“Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
Life is like a coin, pleasure and pain are the two sides, only one side is visible at time, but remember other… — Anonymous 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
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz 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
“As we observe the way our minds and bodies react to pleasure and pain, we begin to clearly understand how ultimately impersonal… — Noah Levine 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
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple,” I said, my voice clipped and brusque. “His belt is for holding up his pants, binding me, and hurting… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Love? We think about it sometimes, always sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it. When we don't have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a sadist. You've brought me to my… — C.D. Reiss 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
“Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick… — Anton Szandor LA Vey Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“When her arousal level was manageable again, she looked at Zach and said, "The line between pleasure and pain is so narrow,… — Candace Blevins Copy Share Image
“What is this thing called life? I believe That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It just may be that the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. What does that mean to finally… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Because, after all, what we deeply want is pleasure and all our values are based on it. Pleasure is the constant factor… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life is like Tai Chi, black and White, strong and weak, pleasure and pain, good and evil, forming a circle. — TGL Copy Share Image
Life is mixture of sunshine and rain, teardrops and laughter, pleasure and pain. Just remember, there was never a cloud that the… — Anonymous 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
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I can show you the union of pleasure and pain. I can make your body feel things you never imagined.” — Roxy Sloane Copy Share Image
“It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ...” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
