„Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.“

— Jonathan Edwards

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„Angels, living light most glorious!Beneath the Godhead in burning desirein the darkness and mystery of creationyou look on the eye of your Godnever taking your fill:What glorious pleasures take shape within you!“
— Hildegard of Bingen
„The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.“
— Cesare Pavese