"You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface."
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"The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away"
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"When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet."
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"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."
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"Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope."
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."
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"Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back."
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"The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will."
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"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
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"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."
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"The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success."
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"Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.” Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain."
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"When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge."
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"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat."
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"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."
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"There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne."
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"Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain."
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