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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Most people who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you
We all are afraid of ourselves, of our own reality; our feelings most of all. We talk about how great love is.
“Bull”. Love hurts.
Feelings are disturbing. We are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can we deal with love if we are afraid to feel it?
Pain is meant to wake us up.
We all try to hide our pain. But wrong we are. Pain is something to carry, like a handbag. We feel our strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how we carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Our feelings are a part of us.
“Our own reality” If we feel ashamed of them, and hide them, we are letting society destroy our reality. We should stand up for our right to feel our pain.”
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and happiness I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or becoming an orphan at early age, but the joy of everything else. That will be enough for me
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
I don't understand people who hide from their past. I've never tried to block out the memories my past, even though some are painful. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
