Earth Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. For instance, one has to work at…

— David Benatar

“There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems…

— David Hume

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

— Anonymous

“Rewards of the Self Finally, there are the variable rewards we seek for a more personal form of gratification. We are driven to conquer…

— Nir Eyal

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Anonymous

Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the…

— David McCullough

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

— Hesiod

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel.

— Mariane Corbito

There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

— Romulus Linney

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin