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• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

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• My joy is as painful as my pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Joy

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 100, 2006.

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Believe, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1226, Scholastic Inc.

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Regret

  "The Creation Of Human Ability". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

  Lee Strobel

  Painful Experiences, Challenges, Soul

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• Living too long exacts a painful price.

  Mason Cooley

  Long, Age, Old Age

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• To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Writing, Things To Do, This Day

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

  Ally Carter

  Mean

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• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Fall, Government

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• Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Payment, Alas

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

  Gautama Buddha

  Resistance, Resistance To Change

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• Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

  Raymond Burr

  Opinion, Reputation, Losing

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• We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Healing, Forget

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• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Regret, Challenges

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• This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Lying, Dark

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 18, 2012

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• Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Shame, Mortification

  Oliver Goldsmith (1855). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.65

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• Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

  Joseph Addison

  Evil, Anxiety, Pressure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265

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• Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Contemplation, Danger

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• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Confusion

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• As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Cutting, Men

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• If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dream, Sleep, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin (1853). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.246

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• They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Long, Tears, Age

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press

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• sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Couple, Mistake

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