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“Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.”

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.”

Heart Seems Pain Humanity Pleasure Cities Share Gains Strive Busy Great Hearts

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.”

Humans Two Pain Goal Strive Fulfillment Folds Avoidance

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.”

Long Moments Pain Values Powerful Groups Achieve Safety Strive Oppression Oppressed Oppressors Stirring Identifying Bidding

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life.it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.”

Kind Pain Consciousness Power Struggle Cutting Strive Seeds Flesh Frustration Germs Restlessness Captives Fetters

Author:Anna Brackett

“Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.”

Thinking Men World Ends Pain Causes Goal Pleasure Mistake Teacher Ideals Misery Strive Great Teacher Pain And Pleasure Pleasure And Happiness

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action