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“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

Giving May Mean Goal Pleasure Effort Principles Becoming Giving Up Realization

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.”

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”

“Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.”

Giving Real Reading Pleasure Strange Giving Up Myth Mythology Collections Tease Unfamiliar Pleasure Of Reading

Author:Elizabeth Hand

“Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?”

Thinking Giving Games Winning Pleasure Study Lovers Please Giving Up My Lover

Author:Eric Rucker Eddison

“I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.”

Giving Spirit My Own Pleasure Giving Up Lust Abandon Piety Free Spirit

Author:Abu Nuwas

“Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.”

“Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.”

Giving Looks Littles Might Understanding Pleasure Quality Ready Giving Up Importance Generosity Titles Improving Constraints Cringe Ready To Give Up

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”

Men Needs Giving Earth Lying Hours Pleasure Existence Fantasy Civilization Cost Giving Up Increase Dear Treated Luxury Our Time Fraud Rebel Indispensable Superfluous Unsatisfied

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.”

People Giving Wells Made Political Hurt Pleasure Drink Giving Up Treats Poison Wicked Milk Wickedness Serpent Hurting Others Drink Milk

Author:Chanakya

“One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.”

Giving Should Pleasure Giving Up

Author:Chanakya

“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 take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

World Way Giving Done Fun Differences Pleasure Giving Up Curiosity Enormous Making A Difference Protest Mortality Making A Difference In The World

Author:Deborah Meier

“One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.”

Giving Pleasure Giving Up Destructive Uncertain Momentary Delayed Dependable

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

Inspirational Giving Dream Bigs Inspiration Values Opportunity Grows Waiting Process Pleasure Steps Plans Sacrifice Events Willing Giving Up Commitment Seven Priorities Steps To Success

Author:John C. Maxwell

“It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”

Men Giving Suffering Difficult Pleasure Sacrifice Giving Up Not Giving Up Renounce

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff