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“All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.”

World Motivational Joy Wish Pleasure Misery Oneself

Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.”

People Wells Looks Pleasure Function Misery Making Money Capitalist

Author:George Osborne

“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Pleasure Destruction Misery Everyday Each Day Misfortunes Surroundings Equanimity

Author:Luther Burbank

“Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.”

“Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.”

“You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.”

Men World Pleasure Men And Women Misery Suits Pollution Small Things Superficiality Tainted

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“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

“It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.”

Humans Pleasure Secret Divine Misery Divine Wisdom

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”

Wells May Pain Evil Perfect Pleasure Worst Misery Spares

Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.”

Pleasure Misery

Author:Mason Cooley

“Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.”

Men World Ideas Moments Seems Pain Beautiful Loses Pleasure Bears Sight Misery Lovely Trials Miserable Love Life

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!”

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.”

Thinking Men World Ends Pain Causes Goal Pleasure Mistake Teacher Ideals Misery Strive Great Teacher Pain And Pleasure Pleasure And Happiness

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action