Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

R.D. Laing
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Instead of avoiding pain, the only real way to experience joy is by facing it head on. Pain can be avoided but not pain that you create. The more you avoid pain, the worse it becomes and the more you create pain for yourself.

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