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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”
― Ashley D. Wallis, Leaping

“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
― Alysha Speer

“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”
― Anthony Liccione