Caring Quote by Chauncey Wright

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving…

— Alan Redpath

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be in love…

— Marcel Proust

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and…

— Aristotle

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving…

— Bertrand Russell

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately…

— Russell Brand

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

— W. H. Auden

“When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be two steps…

— Elena D. Calin

“Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals a pleasure…

— Emil Cioran

“When the mind experiences something distasteful it craves to be rid of the irritation. When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca