“What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.”
“Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.”
“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
“In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.”