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"pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." »Peter McWilliams
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain." »Bartholomew
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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." »Abraham Crowley
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"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain" »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?" »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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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." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain." »Aristotle
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"But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive." »John Milton
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"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." »Henry Bromel
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"Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain." »Hussein Al-Khunaizi
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"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer." »Amanda Grier
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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved." »Von Humboldt
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"Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain." »Euripides
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"Where there is love, there is pain." »Danish proverb
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"Love is know the pain of too much tenderness." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The world laughs at another man's pain." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure." »Chinese
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"Love is Free, Its the pain in the end, you pay for." »Edwin A. Ortiz
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you." »Roger Zelazny
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"pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." »Unknown
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"You did touch me but didn't feel my pain." »B. J. Gupta
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"pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." »M. Kathleen Casey
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"He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"The absence of love is the most abject pain." »Herr Lipp
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"pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it." »Martha Singleterry
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"Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something." »William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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"pain is inevitable suffering is optional." »Unknown
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"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity." »H. G.Wells, The Time Machine
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