"If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us."
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"That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer"
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"Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?"
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"Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special."
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"There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you."
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"The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs."
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"The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure."
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"The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists."
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"Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality."
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"Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing."
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"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."
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"People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct."
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"The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death."
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"Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good."
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."
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"No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain."
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"All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death."
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"If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain."
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