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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure…
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with…
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been…
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or…
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is…
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-…
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up…
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves…
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Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even…
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or…
— M. Scott Peck
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Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid…
— Hal Borland
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
— Tim Hansel
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To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're…
— Beth Moore
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You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.
— Marc Maron
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The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future.…
— Mario Cuomo
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