"To touch a sore is to renew one's grief."

Terence on pain   

"Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria."

Wolf, Naomi on pain
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"Where there's anger, there is always pain underneath."

Eckhart Tolle on pain   

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone."

Artaud, Antonin on suffering   

"The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard."

Weil, Simone on suffering   

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering   

"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

Whitehead, Alfred North on youth
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Proverb, Chinese on anger
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"Unwilling service earns no thanks."

Proverb, Danish on service   

"Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends."

Cruise, Tom on ending
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"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."

Cebrian, Katherine on cooking   

"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

Pritchett, V. S. on youth   

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

Motto, Engineer's on questions
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

Heraclitus on character   

"Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge."

Trevelyan, G. M. on colleges and universities   

"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."

Landesberg, Steve on honesty
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"Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fame   

"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."

La Fontaine, Jean De on faults   

"It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone."

Saying on inheritance   

"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."

Ellis, Sarah on friends and friendship   

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"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."

El-Sadat, Anwar on slavery
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"I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on environment   

"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment
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"A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."

Franklin, Benjamin on faults   

"No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves."

Proverb on faults
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"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

Seneca on gratitude   

"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

Byron, Lord on ambition   

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end"

Hemingway, Ernest on purpose
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"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

Cassis, John on manners
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"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."

Phaedrus on lies and lying
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"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Hugo, Victor on prayer
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"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning."

Evans, Bergen on wisdom
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"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

Newman, Cardinal J. on wish and wishing   

"So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on."

Newton, John on dress
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"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

Chase, Chevy on acting and actors   

"Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession."

Brittain, Vera on wives
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