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I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.