"one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die."
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"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity."
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"To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."
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"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."
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"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
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"Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain."
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"Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
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"If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are."
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"Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure."
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"Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm."
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"A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius."
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"It's pain that changes our lives."
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"I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."
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"A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!"
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"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."
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"I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more."
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"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
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"Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners."
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"There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach."
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