"I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field."
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"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
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"What good is it to live a life that brings pains?"
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"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"
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"Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains."
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""I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success.""
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
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"When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free."
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"Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God."
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"I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain."
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"There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them."
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"Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb."
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"Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job."
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"What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire."
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"Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared"
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"People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning."
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"Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain."
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"This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion."
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"We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be."
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"Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves."
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