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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Erica Jong
Inspirational, Hurt, Pain
FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Erica Jong
Love, Pain, Joy
erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Erica Jong
Pain, Writing, Joy
FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 25, 2012

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

Erica Jong
Pain, Flower, Love Is
Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

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