I am going to go ahead and be that person, but I am going to quote The Fault In Our Stars. Many times in the book they use the phrase "pain demands to be felt". Mill said "pain is heterogenous with pleasure". We have so many great things in life, but there will always be troubled times. Pain will always demand to be felt. A person can excel in their career, family life, relationships, and countless other areas, but life is not perfect. You have to fight for what you have. To excel in those areas, you have to fight and claw your way to the top, and not all, if any, of it will be easy.
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Interesting. I never would have drawn this parallel on my own. I wonder if John Green was thinking Mill when he wrote that line.
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