"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Pain Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Growth Quotes

“I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.”
“Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.”
“It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.”
“When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, youâ€™re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.”
“Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.”

Source : "Jordin Sparks Talks THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, Filming LEFT BEHIND with Nicolas Cage, IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2013.
“To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.”
“The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.”

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