Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Alexander McCall Smith

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Saadi

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Susan Ertz

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Michael Crichton

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

May Sarton

True power is given to the vulnerable.

Markus Zusak

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

Gloria Naylor

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

Hrithik Roshan

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

Elizabeth Gilbert

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Oriana Fallaci

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.