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“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”

Needs Humans Pain Law Culture Kindness Universal Constant Hunger Details Absence Locals Beloved Predictable Exaltation Need Love

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.”

Pain Courage Absence Despite Affirmation

Author:Earl A Grollman

“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Long I Can Self Pain Fall Felt Grace Pride Self Love My Heart Absence Unconscious Affected Protected Unbelief God's Presence

Author:Christian Wiman

“Absence of pain makes anything possible”

Book:Blood Sugar

Source: Blood Sugar

“The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.”

Feelings Pain Depression Opposites Absence Spontaneous Vitality Gaiety

Book:The drama of the gifted child

Source: The drama of the gifted child

“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”

Pain Pleasure Absence

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.”

Light Pain Life Is Joy Hate Love Is Darkness Doubt Absence Confidence Love

Author:Jess Bowen

“Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.”

Giving Feels Play Pain Memories Love Is Results Wonder Stage Objects Absence Beloved Pleasant Recalls Our Love Stage Play

Book:Summa Theologica, (Complete)

Source: Summa Theologica, (Complete)

“Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.”

Firsts Soul Body Pain Choices Pleasure Trouble Absence Aversion

Author:Epicurus

“He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.”

Feelings Pain Absence Triumph Stakes Rejoice Parables

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.”

World Pain Suffering Jesus Offers Conflict Absence Despite Solace

Author:David E. Sorensen

“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”

Life Pain Success Grace Awareness Difficulty Absence Hesitation Incongruity

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc