Quotes about pain
pain selfish evil
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. Lee Strobel
painful-experiences challenges soul
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Lee Strobel
pain break
What most women live in, is fear of the next contraction, or they're reliving the pain of the one they just had. And nature really builds in these breaks, if you can be in the present and not feel the pain and not sort of anticipate the pain to come. Lauren Bowles
pain loss grieving
Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it. Lauren Bowles
pain greatness voice
Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know. Levon Helm
pain forgiving way
Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you. Lewis B. Smedes
pain revenge ties
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops. Lewis B. Smedes
pain children war
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old. Lewis H. Lapham
pain cat insane
Only the insane equate pain with success." "The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die." _Cheshire Cat Lewis Carroll
pain thinking letters
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. Joyce Maynard
pain moving past
Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal. Joyce Meyer
pain love-is stronger
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. Joseph Campbell
pain war live-life
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive. Joseph Campbell
pain opportunity challenges
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all. Joseph Campbell
pain suffering alive
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular. Joseph Campbell
pain struggle home
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. Karl Radek
pain brain ears
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. Karen Duffy
pain hate evil
All that evilness is always just from pain and fear, and that's what I've come to understand. I've come to understand people now. Before, I would blame them for treating me in such a naïve way. I don't hate evil, vicious people anymore. Juliette Lewis
pain dying pleasure
But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain. John Dryden
pain law government
State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws. John Masefield
pain car people
I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. John Mayer
pain fear heart
Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good John Mayer
pain suffering possibility
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. John Lubbock
pain children suffering
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. John Locke
pain thinking evil
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue. John Locke
pain missing mind
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it. John Locke
pain loss shapes
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm. John Locke
pain men rising
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. John Locke
pain lying men
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it. John Locke
pain growing-up parent
All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them. John Lennon
pain sadness dope
Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain. John Lennon
pain insane blame
I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane. John Lennon
pain concepts
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon