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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
– Robin Hobb

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  2. One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. – Robin Hobb
  3. Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. – Lionel Suggs
  4. Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny-”heart broken, twice die. – Wendy Beck
  5. Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. – Tom Hodgkinson
  6. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
  7. Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it? – Robin Hobb
  8. It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else. – Robin Hobb
  9. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb
  10. I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool. – Robin Hobb
  11. How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
  12. Not everything you meet twice is the truth. Not everything you hear twice is the fact, and not everything you ponder over and over can help you! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  13. Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide. – Sharon Weil
  14. 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
  15. 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
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  21. Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. – Louis LAmour
  22. I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead. – Gerald L Sittser
  23. Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes. – Toni Sorenson
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  25. I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry. – Robin Hobb
  26. I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. – Robin Hobb
  27. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. – Robin Hobb
  28. He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. – Robin Hobb
  29. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
  30. And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. ‘You are so stupid. – Robin Hobb
  31. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. – Robin Hobb
  32. There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. – Robin Hobb
  33. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one’s actions. – Robin Hobb
  34. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. – Robin Hobb
  35. The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real. – Robin Hobb
  36. As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character. – Robin Hobb
  37. Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. – Robin Hobb
  38. Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father’s talent for it. – Robin Hobb
  39. Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. – Robin Hobb
  40. Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it. – Robin Hobb

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