"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

Pain, Sensitivity, State, Wonder

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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

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"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."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We are all made complete by our pain."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"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?"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."

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