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“When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.”

Thinking Giving Mind Mean Ends States Body Pain Evil Pleasure Teaching Depends Anxiety Enjoyment Interpretation Disagree

Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”

“Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.”

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”

Persons Challenges Anxiety Capacity Positivity Boundaries Enjoyment Boredom Balanced

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.”

Feels May Life Is Enjoy Worry Dangerous Anxiety Enjoyment Enjoy Life Gloom

Author:Alain de Botton

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.”

Life Mind Important Decision Money Subjects Depends Anxiety Constant Disappointment Finance Enjoyment Decision Making Peace Of Mind Stem

Book:Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth

Source: Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth

“What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).”

Humans Soul Hands Spiritual Purpose Religious Sin Pleasure Promise Anxiety Glory Enjoyment Empowering Fleeting Fullness Human Soul Radiant Intimidation Evermore Scolding

Author:Sam Storms

“Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.”

“Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.”

World Soul Body Happens Spirit Suffering Worry Anxiety Enjoyment Sufferers Contractions

Author:Zoroaster