“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”
“Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships”
“The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.”
“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
“Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.”