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Pain Quotes
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
233
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
96
"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
95
"Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they are the ones giving you pain and only they are your enemies. There is no other enemy out there. There is only a nimit (evidentiary doer) outside. Wrong vision makes you accuse the nimit. When you attain the right belief (samkit), know that you have found the solution."
73
"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."
70
"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things."
66
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
64
"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain."
61
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
60
"He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?"
57
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
56
"Nothing cuts a neural route faster through the brain then a pinch of pain. Periods of unhappiness penetrate and scar the brain. Experiencing intense periods of unpleasantness incites us to grow. If we can bunt the destructive forces of extreme pain and embrace its forceful impact for its educational value, experiencing profound pain causes us to appreciate the pleasure of simply living in the moment, enjoying each blade of grass in nature's glorious bouts of beauty."
56
"We are all made complete by our pain."
55
"Pain is a gift. Instead of avoiding it, learn to embrace it and grow from it."
54
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!"
54
"The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state."
53
"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it."
53
"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
53
"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."
52
"Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self."
52
"I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.He must have been tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. The high topped shoes and the cane, his uncontrollable muscles and thick tongue, and the looks he suffered of either contempt or pity had simply worn him out, and for one afternoon, one part of an afternoon, he wanted no part of them.I understood and felt closer to him at that moment than ever before or since."
51
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain,
48
"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain."
Pain,
47
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