#pain

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

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I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

#knees #like #painful #skinned #superficial

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

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I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. ↗

— Tyler Perry

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Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. ↗

— Goran Persson

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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. ↗

— Tom Petty

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