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“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?”

Ifs Together Sex Loss Pleasure Creation Buddhism Opposites Unions Oneself Sexuality Temporary Coming Together What Is Life Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.”

World Love Suffering Pleasure Kindness Oneself Seeking

Author:Shantideva

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

Pleasure Politician Oneself Opponents Charm Pulling

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.”

Ifs May Important Action Pain Religion Pleasure Cases Morality Sick Oneself Pursuit Torture Behaviour Utility Sympathetic Pain And Pleasure

Book:Choice, Welfare and Measurement

Source: Choice, Welfare and Measurement

“living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.”

Self Able Pleasure Return Intellectual Oneself Companion Bad Things Spells Absent Capricious

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that”

Ifs Want Wells Doe Ideas Matter Happens Pleasure Boys Break One Thing Beats Sake Oneself Connected Things Happen Get Away Somewhere Else Nothing Matters

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.”

Way Giving Lasts Force Pleasure Oneself Monsters Surrender Strongest

Author:Barry Webster