Pain And Pleasure Quotes - Page 4

• When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

  Cennino Cennini

  Pain, Hands, Drawing

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• Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.

  Dale Jamieson

  Pain, Writing, Light

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Rivers, Mind

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• Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

  Brother Lawrence

  Pain, Desire, Employment

  Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

  Thucydides

  Pain, Spirit, Pleasure

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Pain, Average

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• Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Rising

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.399

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• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

  Ernst Mach

  Pain, Philosophy, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Pain, Perfect

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• Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Attachment, Essentials

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• Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Pain, Why Not

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• In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

  John Zachary Young

  Pain, Hate, Ambition

  John Zachary Young (1987). “Philosophy and the brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

  Joseph Joubert

  Growing Up, Pain, People

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• There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

  E. L. James

  Pain, Two Sides, Coins

  E L James (2017). “Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker”, p.195, Random House

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• I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Pain, Men, Self

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• It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.

  Galen Strawson

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

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• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

  Aristotle

  Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

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• If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Pain, Shooting, Red

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• Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Life, Pain, Mistake

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Heart, Past

  "Persuasion".

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• The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. 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 pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Pain, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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