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“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!”

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”

Want Pleasure Situation Dangerous Danger Source Creatures Anxiety Destruction Originals Primaries Impulse Motive Destructive Living Creatures Will To Live Dangerous Situations

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

Source: History of Greece

“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.”

Knows Differences Pleasure Danger Prize Hardship Tempted Shrinks

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.”

May Pleasure Danger Drink Misery Drinking Distraction

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.”

Love Hands Loses Pleasure Half Doubt Danger Willing Flower Lovers Difficulty Merit Hunters Perfume

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.”

Mind Found Loss Pleasure Heard Danger Return Direct Brave Terror Hopeless Scream Mentor Distress Vessel Extravagant Navigation Wailing Voluptuous Presence Of Mind

Author:Francois Fenelon

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.”

Asks Pleasure Danger Paid Peril

Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

“The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.”