"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.." -Virginia Woolf-
"The world is too much with us;late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.".-William Wordsworth-
"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.".-Anais Nin-
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.".-Bret Harte-
"Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, you might as well live.".-Dorothy Parker-
"Suffering is the ancient law of love;there is not quest without pain;there is no lover who is not also a martyr.".-Heinrich Suso-
"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive;but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Passion is the genesis of genius.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.".-Bill Cosby-
"Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.".-Fawn M. Brodie-
"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pil".-Jean Baudrillard-
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.".-Mikhail Bakunin-
"Reason over passion.".-Pierre Elliott Trudeau-
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.".-Barbara de Angelis-
"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.".-Boris Pasternak-
"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.".-Charles J. Givens-
"The past is at least secure.".-Daniel Webster-
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.".-Doug Horton-
"The future influences the present just as much as the past.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near;My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.".-Lord George Byron-
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"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.".-Louis Pasteur-
"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.".-Oscar Wilde-
"If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.".-Robert Hewison-
"Variety is the soul of pleasure.".-A. Behn-
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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.." -Virginia Woolf-
"Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.".-William Wordsworth-
"The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.".-Anais Nin-
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Razors pain you;rivers are damp;acids stain you;and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful;nooses give;gas smells awful;you might as well live.".-Dorothy Parker-
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.".-Henry Miller-
"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.".-Bishop Robert South-
"Sympathy constitutes friendship;but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.".-Coleridge Samuel Taylor-
"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.".-Konstantin Stanislavisky-
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"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety;for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.".-Pythagoras-
"When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.".-Alexander Pope-
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.".-Boris Pasternak-
"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.".-Charles J. Givens-
"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.".-David Jenkins-
"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.".-George Santayana-
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"The best of prophets of the future is the past.".-Lord George Byron-
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.".-Virginia Woolf-
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.".-Albert Einstein-
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"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac);and these chosen creatures I propose to ." -Vladimir Nabokov-
"I am at two with nature.".-Woody Allen-
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.".-Anatole France-
"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning".-Barbara de Angelis
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"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.".-Cardinal J. Newman-
"Laughter is higher than all pain.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.".-Adrienne Rich-
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.".-Antisthenes-
"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.".-Blaise Pascal-
"We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.".-Cyril Connolly-
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-
"Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.".-Laurence Sterne-
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.".-Amy Lowell-
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.".-Bernard M. Baruch-
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.".-Boris Pasternak-
"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future".-Dean Koontz-
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.".-Ernest Dimnet-
"Nothing changes more constantly than the past;for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.".-Gerald W. Johnson-
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.".-Hunter S. Thompson-
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-
"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that".-Virginia Woolf-
"Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progre".-Aldous Huxley-
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.." -Voltaire-
"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?".-Adrienne Rich-
"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.".-Anthony Robbins-
"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.".-Ben Stein
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.".-Francis Picabia-
"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Endure and persist;this pain will turn to good by and by.".-Ovid-
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger;it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.".-Akhenaton-
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.".-Aristotle-
"The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Be still when you have nothing to say: when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.".-George Santayana-
"He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them a".-Roland Barthes-
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.".-Andre Breton-
"To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.".-Bertrand Russell-
"What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Chri".-Boris Pasternak-
"A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.".-Christopher Lasch-
"The present is just an instant between past and future".-Dean Koontz-
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.".-Fawn M. Brodie-
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.".-Henri L. Bergson-
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.".-Isabelle Eberhardt-
"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why;when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.".-Mark Twain-
"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.".-Oscar Wilde-
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.".-Vladimir Nabokov-
"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"Men argue, nature acts.." -Voltaire-
"And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.".-Aeschylus-
"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.".-Anthony Robbins-
"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.".-Bertrand Russell
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.".-Cesare Pavese-
"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.".-Francis Thompson-
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.".-Herb Caen-
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.".-Lord George Byron-
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains.".-Pierre Auguste Renoir-
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"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.".-Albert Camus-
"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.".-Aristotle-
"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.".-Catullus-
"Be still when you have nothing to say;when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.".-Henry James-
"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.".-Lord George Byron-
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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.".-Virgil-
"Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.".-Anthony Robbins-
"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young;not her face.".-Billie Burke-
"It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.".-Brian Friel-
"Study the past if you would divine the future.".-Confucius-
"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.".-Denis Waitley-
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.".-Fidel Castro-
"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.".-John Lyly-
"Fortune favors the prepared mind.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.".-Mark Twain-
"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.".-Philip Roth-
"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.".-William Wordsworth-
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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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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"We are all full of weakness and errors;let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.." -Voltaire-
"Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.".-Albert Einstein-
"It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.".-Arnold Bennett-
"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.".-Bhagavad Gita
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"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.".-Charlie Chaplin-
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.".-Lord George Byron-
"Pain forces even the innocent to lie.".-Publilius Syrus-
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"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.".-Alexander Herzen-
"Ask with urgency and passion.".-Arthur James Balfour-
"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism;if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined;if the latter, gross and sensual.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Chase your passion, not your pension.".-Denis Waitley-
"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"Man's love is of man's life a part;it is a woman's whole existence. 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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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.".-Oscar Wilde-
"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.".-A. J. P. Taylor-
"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.".-Anthony Robbins-
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.".-Bob Dylan-
"Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.".-Camille Paglia-
"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.".-Dale Carnegie-
"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.".-Denis Waitley-
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.".-Francis Herbert Hedge-
"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.".-Louis Pasteur-
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.".-Plato-
"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.".-Winston Churchill-
"Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.." -Ambrose Bierce-
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.".-Bertrand Russell-
"By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.".-Charles Horton Cooley
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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.".-Francis Bacon-
"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true;he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.".-Karl Kraus-
"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?".-Oscar Wilde-
"A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;it is the finest of the fine arts.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.".-Voltaire-
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.".-Alan Watts-
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.".-Antonin Artaud-
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.".-Buddha-
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.".-Denis Waitley-
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.".-Frederick Douglass-
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.".-Ludwig Feuerbach-
"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Jesus wept;Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.".-Victor Hugo-
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.".-Albert Camus-
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.".-Alfred North Whitehead-
"The law is reason, free from passion.".-Aristotle-
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.".-David Hume-
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.".-Lester Bangs-
"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
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