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What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  1. For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  2. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  3. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  4. My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  7. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  8. She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  9. So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  10. Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  11. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  12. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  13. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-”a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  14. I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  15. This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  16. Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it–thus! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  17. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  18. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  19. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  20. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  21. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  22. Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  23. Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  24. If you believe all those who are urging you to give up are wrong, prove them wrong! – Nabil N Jamal
  25. Stuck in thoughts , Thoughts are drenching me , Urging to quarrel within – to quench . – Akash Paliwal
  26. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now. – Lou Gaglia
  27. Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
  28. Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval. – George Takei
  29. Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
  30. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  31. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  32. I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  33. The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  34. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! – Mary Wollstonecraft
  35. Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  36. How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft
  37. Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
  38. Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
  39. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
  40. He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. – Sheldon B Kopp

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