"From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain."

Pain, Life, Survival, Purpose

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"From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain."

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain."

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"Pain is the University of Life."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade."

Patience

"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."

Morality

"Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know."

Balance

"I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."

Morality

"If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies."

Power

"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."

Mind

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

Wisdom

"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."

Emotion

"All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."

Honesty

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

Responsibility