"You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains."
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"It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie."
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"The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings."
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"Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain."
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"Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself."
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"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."
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"The cure for pain is in the pain."
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"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
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"A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain."
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"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them."
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"Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace."
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"Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure."
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"You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind."
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
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"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
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"Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us."
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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