You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. Alexander Pope Pain
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Being a slave to the conditioned mind causes us to keep cycling through periods of pain and pleasure, joy and suffering, love and hate. Dan Brule Inspirational Mind Joy Life Suffering Pleasure
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Oscar Wilde
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned-and you with it, dust of the dust!" Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teethand curse that demon? Or would you answer, "Never have I heard anything more divine?" Friedrich Nietzsche
