"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

Penn, William on pain
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

Johnson, Samuel on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

Aristotle on anger
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."

Aristotle on leisure
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

Aristotle on justice   

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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on happiness
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Aristotle on happiness   

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Aristotle on habit
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on goals
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes."

Metternich, Klemens Von on moderation   

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Robinson, Eddie on achievement
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"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt on achievement
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"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Robbins, Anthony on achievement
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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