The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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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.
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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.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
› Charlie Chaplin
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
› Sophocles
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
› Carl Jung
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
› Mary Howitt
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
› Leo Tolstoy
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
› Plotinus
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
› Aristotle
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
› Thomas Jefferson
