Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ― C.S. Lewis

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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

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In the face of pain there are no heroes.― George Orwell

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Power is find at the limit of pain. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

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The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.

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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ― John Green

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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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