“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
“The way to be happy is totake pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not inimagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.”
“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”
“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”