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We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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  2. To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  3. Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove
  4. If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  5. If there’s going to be pain anyway, I’d rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck. – Suzette R Hinton
  6. To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole. – Swami Dhyan Giten
  7. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. – KrishnaDwaipayana Vyasa
  8. A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  9. Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  10. Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. – Bryant McGill
  11. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
  12. It is natural to be impacted more deeply by pain than by pleasure. – Abhishek Ratna
  13. Artists are those who can evade the verbose. – Haruki Murakami
  14. Dualism will shatter, facade will fade; When thee truly want to know thyself,Truth shall not evade. – Sneha Agarwal
  15. Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense? – Karen Marie Moning
  16. …there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to ???? and the desire to kill. – M Thomas Gammarino
  17. Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide. – Sharon Weil
  18. I tend to avoid people who always have something to say -¦ and those who expect me to always have something to say. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  20. After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  21. If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. -¦ during the week. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  22. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
  23. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
  24. Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  25. Not every single way of saying the right thing is right. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  26. Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  27. Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  28. Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  29. Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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  33. Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
  34. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
  35. There is a Reason to say Beautiful… But there is no Reason to say Awesome… – boddu subbarao
  36. What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
  37. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
  38. The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
  39. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  40. Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson

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