Quotes about pain
pain moving creativity
Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do. Marianne Williamson
pain joy world
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
pain giving-up responsibility
We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
pain grief trying
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
pain world excuse
We shouldn't come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.
pain self phoenix
Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
pain thinking hands
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
pain mistake heart
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.
pain reflection
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
pain singing world
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
painful-experiences needs painful
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
pain people pleasure
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
pain hate commitment
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.
pain trying want
You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
pain heart greatest-treasure
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
pain plato food
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. Mark Kurlansky
pain mistake errors
The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.
pain distance where-you-live
Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live. Mark Lawrence
pain sadness speed
I wanna outrace the speed of pain. Marilyn Manson
pain ashamed repeats
My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself
pain logic produce
Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. Frank O'Hara
pain believe common-sense
I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.
pain smart heart
I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as my heart smarted with life! and she'd toss her head with the pain and paw the air and champ the bit, as if I were Endymion and she, moon-like, hated to love me.
pain bullets sometimes
You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you. Frank Miller
pain stupid arses
I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it. Christine McVie
pain emotional chocolate
I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate. Christina Perri
pain people trying
I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.
pain capacity
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity. Christina Aguilera
pain sides time-heals
Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.
pain passion soul
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
painter
I have never been much of a painter. Christian Marclay
pain shoes ideas
I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be. Christian Louboutin
pain high-heels three
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.