“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
“But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.”
“Failure is a greater teacher than success”
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.”
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.”