Ann Aguirre Quotes

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Grief is the price of victory.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?