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.
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
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.
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.