“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.”
In other words-deal with it.
M. SCOTT PECK
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The important thing is not to stop questioning curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein
“Those things that hurt is instruct” Benjamin Franklin
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