October 2017

The Pleasure-Pain

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But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?


You cannot separate the sugar rush from the sugar crash…


But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.


Sources:

The Pleasure-Pain Syndrome

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No Accident

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there is, actually there is;

a short cut to happiness;

its success, and conquering own limits;

it’s a fixation onto a dear goal


its possible, its really is;

to live an extraordinary life;

its living every moment, once;

its working on oneself, repeatedly;


its now, it’s right now;

a time to choose your fate;

it starts with creating a personal philosophy;

it starts with changing one’s perception;

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…don’t take it personal. don’t ask why did this  have to happen to me…

…life is like an onion you have to peel it one layer at a time and sometimes you cry. life’s going to slapped you around and don’t take it personal. don’t ask why did this  have to happen to me. why not you? who would you suggest? you want to give us some name? some email addresses? and don’t tell everybody 80% don’t care and 20% glad is you…

 

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A Life-Lesson

Source: A Life-Lesson Poem by James Whitcomb Riley – Poem Hunter

There! little girl; don’t cry!
They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your play-house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon pass by. —
There! little girl; don’t cry!

There! little girl; don’t cry!
They have broken your slate, I know;
And the glad, wild ways
Of your schoolgirl days
Are things of the long ago;
But life and love will soon come by. —
There! little girl; don’t cry!

There! little girl; don’t cry!
They have broken your heart I know;
And the rainbow gleams
Of your youthful dreams
Are things of the long ago;
But Heaven holds all for which you sigh. —
There! little girl; don’t cry!

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What Is Life

Source: What Is Life

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE – DARE IT.

LIFE IS A BEAUTY – PRAISE IT.

LIFE IS A CHALLENGE – MEET IT.

LIFE IS A DUTY – PERFORM IT.

LIFE IS A LOVE – ENJOY IT.

LIFE IS A TRAGEDY – FACE IT.

LIFE IS A STRUGGLE – FIGHT IT.

LIFE IS A PROMISE – FULFILL IT.

LIFE IS A GAME – PLAY IT.

LIFE IS A GIFT – ACCEPT IT.

LIFE IS A JOURNEY – COMPLETE IT.

LIFE IS A MYSTERY – UNFOLD IT.

LIFE IS A GOAL – ACHIEVE IT.

LIFE IS AN OPPORTUNITY – TAKE IT.

LIFE IS A PUZZLE – SOLVE IT.

LIFE IS A SONG – SING IT.

LIFE IS A SORROW – OVERCOME IT.

LIFE IS A SPIRIT – RELEASE IT.

LIFE IS A WONDER – CHERISH IT.

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