Complementary Quote by Mak_786

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

— Angelina Love

“Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain are two key motivators in all species. When we feel discomfort, we seek to escape the uncomfortable sensation.”

— Nir Eyal

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

— Rod Stryker

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy…

— Epicurus

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron

Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a…

— Laurel Nakadate

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push…

— Duane Elgin

Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it…

— Stephen Levine

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

— Aristotle