Andrew Baksh
Some notable Quotes on Pleasure and Pain along with some my own. However, I am not sure if mine are original.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
-JOHN SELDEN 1584-1654
"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."
-ANTHONY ROBBINS
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
-MARCUS AURELIUS
"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
-MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
"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."
-JEREMY BENTHAM
"Knowledge is pleasure, but ignorance is pain."
-Andrew Baksh
"It is easy to find pain, but pleasure is still being sought."
-Andrew Baksh
"There is no pleasure nor pain, only confused state of minds."
-Andrew Baksh
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