It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.
The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.
To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.
Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.
Love rewards you more in a moment than pleasure could in a lifetime.
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.
Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.
Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.
Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.
Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.