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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Find, Joy, Place

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Person, Giving, Find

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Music, Good, Hits

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

Life, Character, Sadness

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran

Faith, Lonely, Doubt

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison

Life, Death, Fear

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Human, May, Same

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

History, Courage, Cannot

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Life, Happiness, Loyalty

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

May, Place, Else

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Regret, Two, Discipline

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Happiness, Morning

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.
Tony Robbins

Life, Success, Learning

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Fear, Feelings, Else

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson

Happened, Cost, Evils

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Rock, Saying

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Mistakes, Suffering

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

Wise, Aim, Pleasure

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Humor, Hurt, Laughter

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran

Breaking, Shell

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

Fear, Evil, Arising

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon

God, Measure, Concept

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran

Self, Sick, Bitter

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

Poetry, Joy, Wonder

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Laugh, Play, Able

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Heart

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

Great, Knowledge, Wisdom

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

Alone, Loneliness, Word

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