I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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