Devoted Quote by Brother Lawrence

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

— Tony Robbins

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

— Meister Eckhart

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

“What are our beliefs designed for? They’re the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.”

— Anthony Robbins

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

— Tom Hodgkinson

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the…

— Pete Holmes

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

— Tony Robbins

“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.”

— Sara Daigle

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

— Pema Chodron

Sometimes pain teaches what pleasure never could.

— Yasmin Mogahed