Deepak Chopra Quotes

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

People are extremely reluctant to give up that which gives them pleasure.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.