Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Topic: Accountability, Pain
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.