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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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"The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain."
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"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"
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"Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain."
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"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."
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"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties, it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."
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"I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?"
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"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."
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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."
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"Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life."
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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Friendship
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Communication
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Man
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
Wisdom
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Emotion
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Art
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