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“One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.”

Should Pleasure Mistake Source Same Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Peter York

“The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.”

Believe Kind Ends Enjoy Pleasure Mistake Stomach Reformers Great Mistakes

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.”

Knows Language Pleasure Mistake Making Mistakes Something New Nobody Knows Everybody Makes Mistakes

Book:Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Thinking Trying Long Use Certain Pleasure Mistake Achieve Comfort Profound Entertainment Happy Lasting Cheer Being Happy Deep Thought True Happiness Cheer Up Long Lasting Proxy

Author:Simon Pegg

“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.”

“Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.”

Thinking Can Do Wealth Pleasure Common Mistake Subjects Supreme Estates

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.”

Pleasure Mistake Trouble Solitude Quiet Tranquillity

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“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