Pain quotes
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
The coward lives over and over again a mental picture of pain and death. The valiant experience only the final death, quickly and without pain
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Short Quotes
If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term. Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term
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Life Quotes
This should be your new attitude toward life: no matter what your experiences are, you are going to enjoy them, in the same way, that you enjoy viewing the pleasant or painful experiences of another person in a motion picture.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
it is pain that becomes the most profound experience of most human life. Not joy, not love, not ecstasy - it's the pain.
Whether it's education, marriage, work, career, business, whatever - all these things are extra fittings to our lives to make it better. You would want to add something which makes you more beautiful. But people cling to these add-ons so badly that the burden of carrying extra fittings all over the place becomes painful everything seems exploitative
It is the pain of not knowing which drive human beings to really know life. Otherwise, they only try to know those things that assist their survival
You have wrapped life in all kinds of philosophies, in your ideas, in your emotions, in (all) things that you created, that you neither see the beauty of it nor the pain of it.
You either insulate yourself from other people's pain or you insulate yourself from the very joy of life. Both could be alive in you at the same time... if you looked at life just the way it is, not distorting it according to your emotions, your identifications
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
to love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
He who is not affected by pain and pleasure, he who is calm and evenminded during pain and pleasure, he alone is eligible for immortality
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
If you are forming relationships to seek happiness and trying to squeeze happiness out of somebody and that person is trying to squeeze happiness out of you, now this is going to be a painful relationship after some time
Love is not a joy; it is a deep, wonderful pain. Everything within you should tear. Only then will you know what love is.
If you see both "pain" and "beauty" of Life, then there would be enormous compassion in you, and yet no pain in you. There would be joy in you even though there is so much misery.
The ideas of heat & cold, pleasure & pain, are produced by the contact of the senses with their objects. Such ideas are limited by a beginning & an end, they are transitory, bear them with patience
I enjoy everything, but I have no desire for anything, so there is never any pain or disappointment from unfulfillment. Whatever I do, wherever I go, I enjoy myself.
It is important to avoid identification with pain or anger or any kind of mental or physical suffering that comes
Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
You don't see other creatures of the planet suffering like human beings. Their suffering is purely physical. If they are physically harmed, they are in pain. Even in pain, the do not know the kind of suffering that a human being knows
The way we are treating half the humanity on the planet, it looks like we are hell's angels... we have left a large part of the human population in physical pain. Pain of hunger, disease, and injury.
Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom. The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more has been fired at him than a blank cartridge
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own.
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
This world is but a dream. Just as in the movies there is no essential difference between the ocean & the sky, which are simply two different rates of light-vibration, so it is in this world. Sorrow & joy, pain & pleasure, cold & heat are but dreams
Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will
Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in.
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.