"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

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"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

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"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

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"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

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"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

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"I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made."

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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."

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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."

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"Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good."

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