How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the ‘Knower’ of experience of pleasure and pain.
For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!
The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.
“It is a real pleasure to have such a gem among us,”
“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure”
“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume”
“A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain”
“It's a great pleasure, it's a great opportunity.”
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears”