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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."
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"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."
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"Pain is a gift. Instead of avoiding it, learn to embrace it and grow from it."
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"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
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"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)?"
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"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."
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"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,
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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"I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it."
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"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."
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"Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain."
Pain,
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
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"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."
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"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."
5
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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"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."
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"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."
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"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain."
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"Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life - run to your pain."
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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."
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"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."
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"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
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