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“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”

Way Dream Lying Passion Loses Pleasure Risk Easier Advantage Filled Mindset Immense Avoiding Materialistic Nothing To Lose

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.”

Ifs Mind Pleasure Opinion Forever Easier Barrels Sly Dribble

Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”

Eye Pain Evil Pleasure Doors Easier Sorrow Heavy Print Footsteps Pain And Sorrow Pleasure And Happiness

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.”

Action Order Pleasure Easier Vices Valuable Remembered Virtuous Delightful Complacency

Author:Thomas Merton