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"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."

I read these words on a document my old roommate was making on his computer. I have no idea who wrote it, but it makes complete sense to me, and thanks to this, I always have something to refer back to to give my life direction and purpose.

what else have you found that has been a game changer in your life?

8/2/2013 9:59:14 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryaQSZ8DzU&t=7m33s

7min33s in

[Edited on August 2, 2013 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ]

8/2/2013 10:02:46 PM

baby move your butt, butt butt
all night longgggg
letttt me see that thong!!!

---a great turn of the century anonymous philosopher

8/2/2013 10:23:44 PM

IB4 Fuck Bitches, Get Money

8/2/2013 10:57:21 PM

Life's a garden, dig it
-Joe Dirt

8/2/2013 11:03:20 PM

"And that's why you always leave a note."

8/2/2013 11:08:36 PM

My father passed along this knowledge to me as a young person.

1. Don't act stupid in public
2. Don't get soap in your penis
3. Always assume someone involved in a fight in a strip club parking-lot has a gun.

[Edited on August 2, 2013 at 11:10 PM. Reason : 5]

8/2/2013 11:08:43 PM

Never promise crazy a baby

8/2/2013 11:10:56 PM

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" The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.""

8/2/2013 11:19:56 PM

if I ain't livin' I don't know who is

--BubbleBobble

8/3/2013 3:32:52 PM

An idiot is a genius to a bigger idiot.
-seedless

8/3/2013 6:22:38 PM

I sure wish I had some seeds

--qntmfred

8/4/2013 3:30:54 AM

Trying is the first step toward failure.

8/4/2013 8:52:14 AM

Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.


Rainer Maria Rilke

8/4/2013 11:08:18 AM

8/4/2013 11:29:48 AM

Early bird gets the worm
Second mouse get the cheese


Fits my procrastinate lifestyle quite well

8/4/2013 1:26:33 PM

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"YOLO"

8/4/2013 6:48:19 PM

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

8/4/2013 6:50:08 PM

Never eat soggy wheaties

Im Krallum and I approved this message

8/4/2013 9:03:13 PM

"What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."

4/16/2014 3:08:31 PM

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" Ecc. 9:10

4/16/2014 4:22:13 PM