Pain Quotes
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When all you can see is your pain, perhaps then you lose sight of me?
Your responsibility then is not to create further pain. Let me summarize the process. Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it — don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.
Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.
When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
In a sense, it creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Psychological pain has a history and, at least in that aspect, it is not a matter of getting rid of it. It is more a matter of how we deal with it and move forward.
When we are caught in a struggle with psychological problems we often put life on hold, believing that our pain needs to lessen before we can really begin to live again.
Not only must you deal with the immediate pain of your thoughts, feelings, and physical ailments, you also must deal with the pain caused by the fact that your pain prevents you from living the kind of life you want to live.
Generally, the more you live your life trying to ward off the pain of presence, the more pain you get, particularly in the form of the pain of absence.
Often, we attach ourselves to our pain, and we start to judge our lives based on how we feel and not on what we do.
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
It is easy for the one who stands outside The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one Who suffers.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
They talk of short-lived pleasure—be it so— Pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
An aspirin can cure a headache for an hour or two, but if the pain's really deep, nothing short of brain surgery is going to make it go away.
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of pain.
Pain is another word for fear. True believers have no fears.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
You can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.
Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful; nor is there any port of call where it is possible to forget.
In the country of pain we are each alone.
The Fellowship of Those who Bear the Mark of Pain.
We forget that pain is information and can be a powerful teacher.
My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
There's no pain equal to that of being forced to think.
So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Pain is like the winter before spring.
Tragedy, difficulty and pain keep coming back because they are things for us to learn from.
