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"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
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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."
"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."
"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."
"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."
"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."
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"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
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