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Samuel Johnson

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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Akiroq Brost

"What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size."

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Akiroq Brost

"Remorse is the pain of sin."

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"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."

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"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life."

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Akiroq Brost

"We are all made complete by our pain."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure."

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Akiroq Brost

"Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn't it?"I've made some bad decisions, Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud."

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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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