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Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the...

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a ...

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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...

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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel i...

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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of ...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, ...

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God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

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Max LucadoYou'll Get Through This Study Guide: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

... he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

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Max LucadoYou'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...

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We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves i...

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Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hu...

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Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusio...

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Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians an...

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I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you de...

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I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans ...

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Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...

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I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefa...

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...

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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

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Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is ...

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Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

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The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hu...

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...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right.Lucy ScarboroughNancy...

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Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman...

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Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship J...

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Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin ...

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Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face the...

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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...

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Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It's impossib...

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It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more ...

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Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin.

Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the bo...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and ...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have thi...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is e...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--henc...

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NovalisNovalis: Philosophical Writings

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now ...

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Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ...

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The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill...

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Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the m...

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There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...

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The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if yo...

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin pr...

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The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain...

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After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

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When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

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It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

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A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pa...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same...

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P. D. JamesAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,...

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Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in...

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Paolo BacigalupiThe Drowned Cities

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if t...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I ...

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine se...

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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to e...

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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created...

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Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and b...

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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciati...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the f...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, althoug...

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But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the onl...

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This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feeli...

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Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a flu...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists...

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste...

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...

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We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

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To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's ...

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I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon thing...

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Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray f...

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Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our...

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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...

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For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a who...

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There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on ...

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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t...

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Rabindranath TagoreCollected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seeming...

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my wit...

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