Wisdom for the Soul

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What is the pay for titles, but flattery? How doth man purchase power but by being a slave to him who giveth it?
Akhenaton
c. 1385-c. 1355 BCE, Khemetic (Egyptian) Pharoah

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear for a penny.
Plutarch
c. 46-c. 120, Greek Biographer, Philosopher

There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Statesman, Scientist, Inventor, Writer

Yu wahn ruos caan yu finga ha fi bon;
Yu wahn gud yu nuoz ha fi ron.
If you want roast corn, your fingers have to be burnt.
If you want good, your nose has to run.
Jamaican Saying

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibility of happiness.
John Lubbock
1803-1865, English Astronomer, Mathematician, Writer
The Pleasures of Life

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to trade for it, either now or in the future.
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Writer, Naturalist

There is no such thing as cheapness in the universe. Everything costs its own cost, and one of our best virtues is a just desire to pay it.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, English Art Critic, Philosopher, Reformer
Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton

A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and effort.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821-1881, Russian Writer

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961, American Writer, 1954 Nobel Laureate
Death in the Afternoon

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl
1905-1998, Austrian Psychotherapist, Concentration Camp Survivor

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James Baldwin
1924-1987, African-American Writer, Dramatist, Poet, Civil Rights Activist
Nobody Knows My Name , 1961

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favor progress, provided they can have it without change.
Anthony deMello
1931-1987, Indian Jesuit Priest, Writer

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
Ernest Gaines
1933-, African-American Writer
A Gathering of Old Men , 1983

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.
Dalai Lama
1935-, Tibetan Leader, 14th Dalai Lama, Teacher, Writer

You have given your life to become the person you are today. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
1936-, American Writer

Men: one hell of an outlay for a very small return with most of them.
Glenda Jackson
1937-, British Actress

A society can have anything it cares enough about and is willing to pay for.
- Alexander Kira
Czech Academic
The Bathroom , 1976

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This cross-index may help identify and delineate more closely subjective realities often hard to pin down. Related states elucidate shades of meaning and amplify nuances of feeling Syntonic elements foster and enhance well-being Dystonic factors are contraindicated and should be minimized.
Related States & Conditions	Action/Effort \| Balance \| Choice/Volition \| Decision/Decisiveness \| Discipline, Failure/Error, Having, Indulgence/Temptation, Limitation, Means, Moderation, Questioning/Doubt, Reciprocity/Reflection, Responsibility, Restraint, Value/Worth, Wealth/Prosperity
Syntonic	Acceptance \| Appreciation \| Attention/Awareness \| Desire, Diligence, Giving/Serving, Prudence, Release
Dystonic	Attachment \|, Avoidance/Denial/Refusal \| Complacency \| Conformity \| Delusion \| Fear, Habit, Hate, Jealousy/Envy, Limitation, Regret, Revenge, War/Aggression/Violence, Worry