Enjoyment Quote by N.W. Senior

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

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape…

— Stephen Levine

“Pain is inevitable as it is pareof life as pleasure is.It all depends on how you tackle it either with determination or with frustration”

— P. Dinakara Rao

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

— Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead…

— Anonymous

“Moreover, painful feelings can only arise and remain in our mind because of our present self-grasping.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“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

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

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

— George Bernard Shaw

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain…

— John Milton

“If we are always pushing away from feelings that we condemn as wrong, painful, or ugly, we are also pushing away from the very…

— Shaeri Richards