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Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.
– Colum McCann

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  1. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  2. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  3. Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
  4. People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. – Colum McCann
  5. The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
  6. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  7. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  8. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  9. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  10. There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann
  11. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  12. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  13. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  14. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  15. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  16. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
  17. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  18. One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains. – Dada Bhagwan
  19. God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson
  20. Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,so that no wound will separate us. – Pablo Neruda
  21. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  22. Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely. – Atalina Wright
  23. Never give up.Never give up on your hopes.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your visions. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt. – Orrin Woodward
  25. Never forget to give. If you have nothing to give, then give your love and kindness. – Debasish Mridha
  26. Give! If you have nothing to give, don’t forget to give your love. – Debasish Mridha MD
  27. So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows. – Jim McCann
  28. I dig and plough at your command,’ I replied, ‘but you will not tell me how to shit. – Maria McCann
  29. I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either. – Jessica McCann
  30. How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson. – Maria McCann
  31. God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. – Maria McCann
  32. I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE OR RECEIVE EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.NOTHING COMES IN AND NOTHING GOES OUT EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. – Catherine Carrigan
  33. Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9) – Prem Prakash
  34. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. – Robin Hobb
  35. Celebrity culture is something that pains me. – Susie Orbach
  36. Despite your pains and your problems you can still be kind to others as they are not responsible for your misery. – Latika Teotia
  37. Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float! – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul’s. – Dave Zebian
  39. The past, rich with it’s pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize. – Rukhsana Ahmad
  40. Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience – Rixa White

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