"The end of pain we take as happiness."

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Source : Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

Giacomo Leopardi

#Pain Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.”
“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”
“Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.”

Source : Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.18, Penguin
“Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.”
“I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.”
“Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.”
“Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself”

Source : "Dark Knights". Song by Rapsody, 2013.
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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