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Letter "P" » pain and pleasure
«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
conscience, deaf, deaf to, megaphone, pains, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, rouse, rouses, rousing, shouts, shout out, speaks, The Whisper, whispers
«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»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Effort,
Government,
Mankind,
Nature,
Pain,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
confirm, demonstrate, pain and pleasure, sovereign, subjection, throw off
«It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.»
«Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
forgetfulness, oblivion, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, remembrance, remembrances, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out
«God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
god, pain, paining, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, shouts, shout out, take pains, The Whisper, whispers
«Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.»
«Because the calm person, who is not afflicted by these feelings and is steady in pain and pleasure, becomes fit for immortality, O Arjuna.»
«Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bondage, brings, liberty, Nothing More, On Liberty, pain and pleasure, too much
«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.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
around, a lot, causes, definition, in a way, lot, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, The People, ton
«Speech is vain and useless. O Nanak, pain and pleasure are in the power of our Lord and Master.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
pain and pleasure
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