Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul.