“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.” IfsMenWorldBelieveHeartSelfMomentsLawSpiritI BelievePleasureRoomsPridePrayingHolyAmbitionSeekingCornersContraryGhostSelfishnessHoly SpiritConceitHoly GhostPraying To GodSpirit Of God Book:Secret Power Source: Secret Power
“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.” WorldMindMayStatesHappinessFreedomPleasureMeditationConceptsContraryPursuitNoiseBlissFormulasState Of MindBrutalitySearching For HappinessUninvited Book:Freedom, Love, and Action Source: Freedom, Love, and Action
“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.” MayPersonsCountryStatesGovernmentOrderHousePleasureUnitedUnited StatesPrisonAffairRefuseContraryBelongingAdsEstablishmentInteriorsPenetrateSanctuaryAdmissionProfaneAdministrative Author:Gustave de Beaumont
“Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.” WantKindNextLanguagePleasureFailingObjectsMarkIllDelightContraryEsteemThis LifeMannersTemperShockingFlatteryHypocriteDoing GoodDeservingAmiableGreatest Pleasures Author:Samuel Richardson
“Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.” MeanDoeEnjoyPleasurePerfectionSeasonsContraryVenture Author:Lord Chesterfield
“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.” MindMeanDoeHas BeensMatterPainHurtMemoriesLove IsPleasureKnownDyingLove YouConflictCapableBuiltContraryResistanceInnocentInnocenceIncapableRemembrancePain And PleasureBeing Hurt Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.” GivingFormPleasureHeardInvolvedArgumentContraryFavorsConvincing Author:Gore Vidal