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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine"
Emily Bronte
"I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me"
Emily Bronte
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change"
Mary Shelley
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
William Faulkner
"Pain + Reflection = Progress"
Ray Dalio
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul"
John Keats
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have"
Soren Kierkegaard
"Comedy is tragedy plus time"
Carol Burnett
"God never allows pain without a purpose"
Jerry Bridges
"A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain."
Daniel Goleman
"The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble"
Henry Miller
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain"
Dante Alighieri
"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice"
Viktor E. Frankl
"What is to give light must endure burning"
Viktor E. Frankl
"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain"
Isabel Allende
"Life without pain has no meaning"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Everything passes away suffering pain blood hunger pestilence and the sword it all passes away the suffering passes away love passes but the stars remain."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"
Dante Alighieri
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