It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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About Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the “Philosopher of Pessimism”, was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and...

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As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it,… only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality.… So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sacrifice is romantic until the only payoff is a broken heart and endless pain.

—Deborah Bladon in CHANCE

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her… but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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In short I will part with anything for you but you.

—Mary Wortley Montagu

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Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby—I just don't care what it puts me through.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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I gathered my shoes and wallet on the other side of the metal detector and took a last glance at my father, who was still there, still waving.That mangled finger had always been a symbol of his shortcomings and deformities to me, but now I saw it was also a testament to all that he'd sacrificed for our family.He'd lost that trigger finger building the business that had fed and clothed me. I imagined he was not only waving me goodbye but waving me forward with that symbol of his own woundedness.

—Shozan Jack Haubner

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