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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – Buddha

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. – John Lennon

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. – Tony Robbins

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. – Tony Robbins

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. – Tony Robbins

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. – Kurt Cobain

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. – Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Jim Morrison

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. – Erma Bombeck

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. – Karl Marx

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. – Jack Kerouac

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. – Simone Weil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.  –  Simone Weil

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. – Roger Bannister

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. – Roger Bannister

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. – William Hazlitt

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. – Honore De Balzac

It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. – Lady Bird Johnson

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory. – Janet Jackson

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going. – David Foster Wallace

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you’re in big trouble if you’re borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We’ve got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. – Simon Cowell

I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. – Meryl Streep

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. – James Taylor

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow. – James Taylor

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. – Jennifer Aniston

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass. – Jennifer Aniston

Mike Dirnt from Green Day Quotes

mike_dirnt– “Sublime really annoys me, well the singer does. It’s ok to party, it’s ok to take drugs and have fun but don’t die! Don’t die! Party and go on but don’t die! That’s the rule. He died. We all party, but we don’t die.”
– “Punk is no longer a four-letter word. It’s a three-letter word now.”
– “All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”
– “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”
– “Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad … were still pretty damn good.”
– “Leave me alone. I’m just the bass player.”
– “You ain’t never gonna get satisfied, and once you’re there, you’ll be unsatisfied.”
– “Musicians make music, technicians make techno.”
– “If you haven’t travelled all over the United States or anything, you don’t have to because I did it for you. And it all looks like a hockey arena.”
– “I can’t figure out how to get on it.” – on Napster

– “We’re validating our insanity.”

– “I think we get hurt less than most people, if they lived like us.”

– “I kind of look at it as a percentage of how much stupid stuff we actually do.”

– “It’s too hard to mime and do the dance moves at the same time.” – on bands
that lip-sync during concerts

– “Selling out is compromising your musical intentions, and we don’t know how to do that.”

– “If you can say the word dookie you can keep in touch with the child within.”

– “If Canadians could vote in the states, maybe we wouldn’t have such a fucking stupid president.”

– “If my kid didn’t rebel, she wouldn’t be my kid.”

– “I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.”

– “It’ll sound pretty cocky, but I’m already in my favourite band.”

– “We’re not gazillionaires, but we’re pretty damn close!”

– “If you can make yourself a happy person, then you’re giving to the world.”

– “Don’t blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn’t know our music was going to get that big.”

– “Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fucking thing!”

– “A lot of shows on that tour had to be cancelled because the crowds got too big.” – 1994 tour

– “We grew up in Berkeley, which is the fucking methampheamine capital of California.”

– “I’ll always remember 1994 as the year that… ate shit.”

– “We personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. And when they do, they’re gonna hit everyone with shit.”

– “I told Billie, let’s just take it as far as we can. Eventually we’ll lose all the money and everything else, anyway. Let’s just make sure we have one great big story at the end. I think we will. In a lot of ways we already do.”

– “Your just mad cuz you’re in the rain, well fuck you! I hope it rains so much you get stuck!”

– “If you’re wondering why I’m not wearing shoes.. it’s cuz one fell out of the van yesterday.. I’m not a fucking hippy!”

– “I was one of those kids who’d walk around the neighbourhood and talk to the adults and learn a lot. I’m good with people.”

– “Go in your older brother’s closet and learn something, man.”

– “I wanna see everyone. And everyone, and everyone.”

Kurt Cobain Quotes

cobain-kurt– “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
– “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
– “I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
– “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
– “I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
– “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”

– “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”

– “I won’t eat anything green.”

– “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

– “I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.”

– “I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.”

– “I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.”

– “If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”

– “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”

– “If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”

– “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”

– “Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

– “Rather be dead than cool.”

– “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

– “The worst crime is faking it.”

Tom DeLonge from Blink 182 Quotes

tom_delonge– “I can’t live without Mexican food.”
– “I spy on my dad when he’s taking a shower just like everybody else.”
– “Punk has nothing to do with what label you’re on.”
– “All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they’re so punk because they have a purple mohawk.”
– “People always throw things at us.”
– “Right now people think I’m ugly, but in 150 years they might think I’m handsome.”
– “I applaud anyone who thinks I’m good-looking and invite them into my world.”

– “I call everyone stinky butt.”

– “Anybody that is going to hear the record is going to think, «The songs totally suck, but the production is so amazing, I’m going to go buy the record.»” – on Enema of the State

– “Right after Seattle all eyes went to San Diego.”

– “As long as we helped you discover that the world is a beautiful place.”

– “I think we need therapy.”

– “I think it’s so incredible that there are all these boy bands out there, like the Backstreet Boys and N’sync. They’re all so bad! It hurts me, I’ve cried!”

– “And they choreograph everything, including the sex they have with each other after the shows!” – about boy bands

– “I don’t think that listening to the Beastie Boys is embarrassing because I think they are a really great band.”

– “The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.”

– “It’s all on this giant fiberoptic system tied into the Pentagon and they are monitoring everything we do and we’re all gonna die.”

– “We write about relationships, and just growing up though high school, that kind of stuff.”

– “Success is strange.”

– “When you go from selling no records to selling lots of them, you have to wonder-did your mom buy them all? Are they just sitting in your garage?”

– “It’s a travelling punk rock barbecue.” – about Warped Tour

– “I hated, hated, hated my job. You know those people who hate there job? That was me.”

– “We were bored and we couldn’t get chicks. So we decided if we’d be in a band, that would take care of two problems at once.”

– “I might be a dork, but I don’t want to be a jerk.”

– “There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”

– “All in the name of science of course!”

– “We don’t want to grow up, we never want to grow up!”

– “We’re just really lucky. We’re not better than anybody else.”

– “Please don’t throw your dirty toilet paper, I’m not hungry.”

– “And we don’t stay up all night driving, now we stay up all night drinking.”

– “I just want to make a UFO movie.”

– “These days, if we’re not sleeping, we’re trying to get food or we’re watching TV.”

– “We pull off looking stupid very well. We can do that without even trying.”

– “I am such a freak.”

– “I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be.”

– “We don’t want to be Green Day!”

– “The worst thing in the world is shit, and shit comes out of the butt.”

– “There’s too many rad things to stick in your butt besides a living animal.”

Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day Quotes

billie-joe-armstrong– “We don’t want to be cocky and go into these big arenas and have nobody
show up, or maybe have it only half-filled.”
– “We’re always up to prove ourselves.”
– “Insomniac was so important, just because we created a foundation for ourselves
to be able to branch out.”
– “And that’s part of the process of writing songs, to figure out life and how
to live it.”
– “If you need a mop, you go to Target, just like everybody else.”
– “If you act like a fuckin’ dork, people are gonna treat you like a dork.”
– “I hate celebrities.”
– “So I think the success of bands like Blink 182 and Offspring helps us in
the long run.”

– “That’s the reason I play punk rock, I don’t need or want all the other
outside bullshit.”

– “Lyrically, I think this album is groundbreaking for me.” – on album Warning
– “Reggae carries no pessimism.”

– “Operation Ivy is the only ultimate ska-punk band out there.”

– “Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.”

– “We’re just as much punk as we used to be.”

– “When we started out, punk was probably the most unpopular music around.”

– “Punk will never be dead to me.”

– “If we trash other bands, it only makes us look lame.”

– “Woodstock… To tell you the truth it was the closest thing to total chaos I’ve ever seen in my life. The audience took over everything.”

– “They have bad taste. I am NOT a good looking guy.”

– “Yeah fuck me! I wish you could all fuck me!!”

– “Never run in the rain with your socks on .”

– “There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.”

– “Apathy rules, fuck everyone!”

– “Punk rock’s dead, and I fucking killed it!”

– “I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am now.”

– “Throw mud at each other.. see how many stupid things you can do to each other all at one time.”

– “You my friend, will never be a winner.”

– “I wasn’t the kind of kid that was beaten up or anything in high school. I think I was more invisible. I didn’t really exist.”

– “Susan Luchie, eat your heart out.”

– “Besides, I always thought anger was a lot more interesting than feeling good about yourself.”

– “Everybody gets sick of life. It’s human nature.”

– “The beauty of the punk thing is that everyone has their own interpretation- like the Bible.”

– “I’m not gonna say anything inspirational; I’m just gonna fucking swear a lot.”

– “Mistakes are a big part of our sound.”

– “I wanna see random acts of teen sex everywhere!”

– “When was the last time you saw someone drink an entire bottle of ice tea?”

– “We’re going to change our name to the Susan Luchie Band.”

– “Don’t mow another man’s lawn!”