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“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”
Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
“learning 's a gift, even when "pain", s your teacher!”
“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
Source: Renegade's Magic
“It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.”
“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”
Source: The Devil's Web
“Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.”
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?”
Source: Oh My Goth
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”