If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Even the promiscuous feel pain. ~ Warren Beatty, Born This Day

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~ William Henley

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Tonight I’m stepping lightly and I’m feeling no pain. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk. ~ Joyce Brothers

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. ~ Evel Knievel

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the country of pain we are each alone. ~ May Sarton

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble? ~ George Pacaud

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need. ~ John Lennon, Rolling Stone, 1970

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