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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Mark Twain

Life, Pain, Animal

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

Pierre Charron

Pain, Opposites, Laughing

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Tragedy, Shadow

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

John Berger

Pain, Philosophical, Space

John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.69, Vintage

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There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Pain, Pleasure, Born

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Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

Gautama Buddha

Pain, Meditation, Way

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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

Rabindranath Tagore

Pain, Heart, Eye

Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.72, GENERAL PRESS

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pain, Choices, Sometimes

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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

Aristotle

Pain, Perception, Desire

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In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality, Helping, Spirituality

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Pain, Luxury, Add

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C. S. Lewis

Depression, God, Christian

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Peace, Military

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

Jay Baer

Greed, Listening, Nausea

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In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

Atul Gawande

Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.

Cherise Sinclair

Pain, Differences, Body

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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

E. M. Forster

Pain, Book, Interesting

'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pain, Eye, Light

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Men, Imagine

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.

Charles Darwin

Children, Pain, Animal

Charles Darwin (2007). “The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

Marcus Aurelius

Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hurt, Pain, Memories

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Suffering, What If

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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