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“After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.”

People Thinking Trying Made Play America Pleasure Deals Conflict Sexuality Related Worthwhile Persecution Puritan

Author:Hugh Hefner

“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

“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”

“We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.”

Men Giving Long Suffering Pleasure Forever Conflict Giving Up Tragedy Aim Pursued Renounce Pleasures Of Life

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."”

Thinking World Way Needs Mean Desire Pleasure Secret Building Conflict Pressure Overwhelming Relieved Secretive

Author:Philip Schultz

“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.”

“Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?”

Men Suffering Pleasure Regret Victory Conflict Sake Selfishness Righteousness Appetite Scorn

Book:(407 p.)

Source: (407 p.)

“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”

People Believe Desire Pleasure One Thing Conflict Be Good Bad People Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?”

Ifs Humans Earth Heaven Christ Natural Pleasure Saws Generations Activity Conflict Critical Disaster Satisfied Enjoyed Sickness Leisure Our Generation Natural Disaster Leisure Activities

Author:John Piper

“And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.”

Pleasure Conflict Despair Rewards Intellect Uncertainty Angst Inseparable

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?”

Ifs Way Stories Law Father Literature Pleasure Conflict Hatred Storytelling Narrative Tenderness Entering Dialectics Oedipus

Book:How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces

Source: How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces