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"The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain."
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Personal Development
"The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you."
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Personal Development
"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"
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Personal Development
"We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain."
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Personal Development
"Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain."
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Personal Development
"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?"
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Personal Development
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
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Personal Development
"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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"A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
Literature
"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
Relationship
"Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals."
Love
"Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture."
Self
"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully."
Love
"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Poetry
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"Passion out of passion's obstacles."
Emotion
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
Growth
"The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich."
Time
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