There is only early morning light. Then the Water Train passes. Different. A weight of sound. The sound of a great waterfall crashing into a pool. It has the power church bells must used to have. ― Cynan Jones

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My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it gets taken from you quick. – Nipsey Hussle

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. — Vernon Sanders Law

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

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Power is find at the limit of pain. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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Suffering brings experience. ― Aeschylus

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Maybe it's good we don't know what will happen next in our stories, because if we did, we might not turn the page. Or we might skip ahead and never experience the good that comes out of the hard moment we're living through ― Simone Biles

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When we played, we were all the same. We were all one. ― Yamile Saied Méndez

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If we desire power over sin, we must pray. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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