219.Quotes On Nature:Passion:Past:Pain:Pleasure-Part 9
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.." -Voltaire-
"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?".-Aeschylus-
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.".-Aristotle-
"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.".-Betty Friedan
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"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.".-Charles Lamb-
"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan;For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.".-Francis Thompson-
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.".-Lord George Byron-
"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.".-Pierre Charron-
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"To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.".-Albert Camus-
"The law is reason, free from passion.".-Aristotle-
"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.".-Henry Miller-
"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.".-Lord George Byron-
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"Life is action and passion;therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?".-Virginia Woolf-
"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate de".-Anthony Robbins-
"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.".-Blaise Pascal-
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.".-Buddha-
"A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.".-Denis Waitley-
"The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.".-Finley Peter Dunne-
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered;for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.".-Henry Kissinger-
"I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.".-Ken Keyes Jr.-
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.".-Phyllis Mcginley-
"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.".-Winston Churchill-
"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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