The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.
There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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