“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Born of the Night
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American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Books and Reading
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing
“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz
Ch 25
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Context: Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America — burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought.
“Your son learns the “hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 65
“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9
Nicomachean Ethics
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics
