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Letter "P" » pain
«The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.»
«The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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«We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.»
«The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.»
«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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