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“There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.”

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Author:George Vaillant

“True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.”

Source: A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom

“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”

Pain Happiness Appearance

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

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Book:The continuum concept

Source: The continuum concept

“You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.”

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Book:Cordelia's Honor

Source: Cordelia's Honor

“To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.”

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Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.”

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Author:Peggy Orenstein

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

“One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

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Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

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Author:Joseph Addison

“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.”

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Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”

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Author:Polly Toynbee

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

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Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.”

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Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

Source: Diary: A Novel

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”

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Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves”

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Author:Confucius

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

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Book:The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”

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Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

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Book:Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Source: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

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Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”

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Author:Leslie Caron