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Pain Quotes
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
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"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
38
"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."
28
"Pain is a gift. Instead of avoiding it, learn to embrace it and grow from it."
22
"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
21
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
12
"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)?"
12
"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain."
11
"Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain."
Pain,
10
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
10
"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."
10
"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it."
10
"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."
10
"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,
9
"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
9
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!"
9
"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
Pain,
8
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
8
"And afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you know? I had to-I interrupted her hysteria It's okay, I understand.That was a lie. I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die - she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it."
8
"We are all made complete by our pain."
8
"A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones."
7
"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."
7
"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."
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