"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
― R. D. Laing
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More From R. D. Laing
- "Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
- "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
- "Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
More In Great
- "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."― Norman Vincent Peale
- "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."― William Hazlitt