Avoidance Quote by Dipa Ma

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be…

— John Berger

As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is…

— Thubten Yeshe

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain

— Rajneesh

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

— Anne Rice

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we…

— Lama Yeshe

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

— Epictetus

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

— Aristotle

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj