Given Quote by Helen Keller

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation of pleasure…

— Anonymous

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

“Once we’ve concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly…

— John Calvin

“It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain.…

— David Benatar

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

— Radhanath Swami

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

— Anonymous

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

— John Milton

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly…

— Rose Macaulay