“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience”
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“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience”
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love”
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity”
“Barking dogs seldom bite”
“Once bitten twice shy”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. ”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom ”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey”
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office”
“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. ”
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
“There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.”
“And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles in your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.”
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”