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«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.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
control, controls, control it, Having, How to, instead, learning, Out of Control, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, pleasuring, secret, The Secret, use
«Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
gets, Having, next, pleasure, pleasuring, pride, prides, take pride, the next
«That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.»
«The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.»
«The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
character, commerce, conscience, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, knowledge, moralities, morality, pleasure, pleasure principle, pleasuring, politics, principles, rooting, roots, roots of, root out, sacrifice, science, take root, The Roots, violence, wealth, worship, worshipping
«There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
gained, pleasure, useless
«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.»
«There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it»
«The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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body, done with, luxury, mode, pleasure, purification, recollection, recollections, regret, remains, sin, sins, The Body
«The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
according, accords, in accord, lives, place, pleasure, pleasuring, The Man, The Man Who, The Pleasure, work, working man
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