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“Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.”

World Beautiful Pleasure Endure Calm Intellect Sensuality Sensual Borders Climbing Bubbles Sublime Unseen Soap Sparkling Sensual Pleasure Soap Bubbles

Author:John H Aughey

“I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'”

“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”

World Way Hard Pleasure This World Terrible Consequence Endure Painful Rings Attractive Pleasant Sensations Contemplating Worms Scratches Itching

Author:Ramakrishna

“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.”

Ifs Men Might Earth Pain Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Bed Reflection Devil Angel Charity Endure Ill Possession Envy Pity Possessed Distress Doing Good Death Bed

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.”

Care Joy Mother Pleasure Worry Virtue Charity Endure Cheer

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.”

Knows World Persons Hands Might Lasts Life Is Suffering Causes Pleasure Known Cases Forever Endure Life And Death Our World Departure Passed Away

Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”

Hands Form Evil Hope Heaven Pleasure Forever Taken Honor Degrees Eternity Endure Riches Absence Enjoyment Crowns Wreaths

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.”

“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.”

Pain Suffering Evil Enjoy Pleasure Tasks Endure Sensations Incapable Powerless Impatient New Experiences Invoke Ennui Locality Suffering Pain Reverting

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.”

Reason Purpose Pleasure Deserve Endure Grieving

Author:Karen Katafiasz

“Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.”

People Knows Feels Soul Hard Joy Suffering Heaven Pleasure Levels Existence Quiet Standards Longing Endure Meaningful Anticipation Unlimited Godly Destined Ache Hard Things

Author:Larry Crabb