"Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure."

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Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

Tom Hodgkinson

#Pain Quotes #Creating Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.”

Source : "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Harry Potter fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, www.hpmor.com. 2010 - 2015.
“Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.”

Source : Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”
“I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.”
“A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.”
“There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!”

Source : "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2006.
“Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart”
“My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.”

Source : "A History of Science". Book by George Sarton. Volume 2: "Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.", Preface, 1959.
“There are never enough I Love You's.”

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