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“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
Anthony Robbins
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
C.S. Lewis
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
Chinese Proverbs