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“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
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.”
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain”
Oprah Magazine (2004)
Source: The Naming
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
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
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”
“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
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.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”
Source: Shanghai Girls
“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”
Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“Any form of idealism involves avoiding some specific pain or suffering.”
Money and Value http://www.unfetteredmind.org/money-value-life-1#sect8. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (2007-12-02) (Topic: Life)
“Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain
That has been, and may be again.”
The Solitary Reaper.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”