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“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.”

Knows World Way Mind Heart Whole Care Law Desire Choices Sound Christ Sin Walks Pleasure Judgment Prosperity Determined Reasonable Righteous Walking With God

Author:Joseph Alleine

“Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.”

Used Choices Pleasure Color Simplicity Painter Sermons

Author:Martin Luther

“Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.”

Way Mean Choices Grows Enjoy Pleasure Company Worst Profit Superiors Being The Best

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.”

Choices Pleasure Return Good Things Very Good Criteria Avoidance

Author:Epicurus

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”

Men Choices Three Pleasure Animal Common Objects Opposites Painful Noble Motive Pleasant Good Man Three Things Avoidance

Author:Aristotle

“Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.”

Firsts Soul Body Pain Choices Pleasure Trouble Absence Aversion

Author:Epicurus

“Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.”

World Done Choices Pleasure Struggle Identity Source Conflict Survival Majority Motherhood Integration Ambivalence

Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.”

States Choices Decision Pleasure Dna

Book:The Robin Sharma Pack

Source: The Robin Sharma Pack

“People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There's no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.”

People Home Pain Joy Choices Pleasure Nice Car Clothes Adversity Evident Choose To Be Happy Fast Car Joy Within

Author:Robin Sharma

“The pleasure is our choice.”

Inspirational Choices Pleasure Attraction Law Of Attraction Our Choices

Author:Esther Hicks