"Pain is no longer pain when it is past."

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Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

Margaret Junkin Preston

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes

“Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”
“There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.”
“Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.”
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
“Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plansâ€”I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment,”
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin (2006). “Gifts”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.”
“Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.”

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