The Way Of Success

so my husband is reading this book, the way of success by sterling w. sill, and yesterday we decided to sit outside in the beautiful weather to read a chapter together.. the chapter we ended up reading was about The Pleasure Principal which is basically that as humans we tend to do things that bring us pleasure and avoid those things that cause us pain.
i want to share a paragraph that i really loved;

In our ignorance we sometimes think life is picking on us and we become rebellious, or we feel sorry for ourselves and get discouraged. Then we lose our morale and quit trying. as the pain is increased we sometimes whine or cry, instead of taking life's suggestions that we repent.
(here's my favorite line....)
But life never turns off the pain until we eliminate the cause. (duh)
the pressure is increased until we either change our ways, smother our conscience or have a nervous breakdown. instead of accomplishing what was intended, some let fears and worries take over their lives to produce heart trouble and other disease. but this pleasure pain arrangement seems to be here to stay, and we had better learn how to profitably live with it..

LOVE IT!!