Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

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Accept the pain for what it is and focus more completely on what you want. ― Adeleke Aishat

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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ― Marilyn Monroe

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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire. - Adam Sandler

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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

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

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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles. - Adam Sandler

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Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

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