It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
Life without pain has no meaning.
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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