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“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
Anthony Robbins
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
C.S. Lewis
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”
Jennifer Aniston
“We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be”
“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
George Bernard Shaw
“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.”
“We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.”
Albert Einstein
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain”
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”
“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson