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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
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.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
enlightenment awakening recognition
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Alan Watts
enlightenment needs inward
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Aiden Wilson Tozer
enlightenment want trouble
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. Chogyam Trungpa
enlightenment sanity ifs
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
enlightenment contamination
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment. David Brin
enlightenment degrees paradox
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. Deepak Chopra
enlightenment sacred steps
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Ann Druyan
enlightenment three enlightened
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle
enlightenment doe outsiders
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.
twenties hiroshima scientific-truth
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima. Kurt Vonnegut
twenties advertising exposure
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this. Bill Wyman
twenties midlife kind
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity David Foster Wallace
twenties kind judgmental
Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate. Donna Air
twenties needs use
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime. Donald Miller
twenties violence firsts
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. Dalai Lama
twenties selflessness eleven
I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield. Cole Younger
twenties whether
I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly. Bryan Lee O'Malley
twenties
I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin. Leslie Mann