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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. ― Aeschylus
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money. ― François Lelord
We can activate tremendous powers within our own lives if we open up to the experience. ― Ari Gunzburg
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker
When falling in love I think you should say to yourself, ‘I am going to do this fully.’ I love to the fullest extent that I possibly can - and why not?... Maybe this means there is going to be pain, but I am willing to accept the pain.
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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
Without any doubt, I am striving for power. -Alexei Navalny