“Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.” PeopleWorldWantHumansGamesEnergyHuman BeingsPleasurePowerfulJourneyAfter DeathOther WorldsDrainsSkillful Author:Frederick Lenz
“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.” MenWellsEnergyAbilityPleasureResultsCreativeGreaterHe ManGeniusHabitEqualDiseaseCapacityCleanInstanceFormerUselessLatterEnduranceEvidentAgilityBeing EqualCreative Energy Author:Christian D. Larson
“We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.” NeedsEnergyWealthPleasureMillionsOur LivesDyingMaterialsFameResourcesAimProfitCommittedDeterminedHungrySensualOur TimeConsumerismOverconsumptionSensual Pleasure Book:Being Peace Source: Being Peace
“Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?” WorldFeelsHeartUseLightOrderEnergyPleasureBrainGratitudeGratefulImpulseOur WorldVibrationsElectricalNature Beauty Author:Louis Schwartzberg
“What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.” SuccessEnergyPleasureStandardsSensualArrangementsRequirementsAvoidingStandards Of LivingHigh StandardsSensual Pleasure Book:the new industrial state Source: the new industrial state
“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.” ThinkingMindStatesPassionEnergyPleasurePrinciplesConditionsProduceDressesTrainAbstractThoughtfulCivilizedSavagesDominionFondnessUncivilizedTrain Of Thought Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.” GivingShouldArtSpiritEnergyPleasureIncreaseRelate Author:Kenneth Clark
“I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.” PeopleIfsSeemsEnergyPleasureIllCleverCopiesOriginalityCloaks Book:Armance Source: Armance