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“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain”
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Oprah Magazine (2004)
Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
Source: The Naming
Lois Lowry book The Giver
Variant: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Source: The Giver
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace
Source: A Fatal Grace
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Variant: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”
Lisa See book Shanghai Girls
Source: Shanghai Girls
“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“Any form of idealism involves avoiding some specific pain or suffering.”
Ken McLeod (1948) Canadian lama
Money and Value http://www.unfetteredmind.org/money-value-life-1#sect8. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (2007-12-02) (Topic: Life)