Quotes about pain
pain men pleasure
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Edward Young
pain soul comfort
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs. Edward Young
pain pleasure
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. Edward Young
pain heaven despair
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. Edward Young
pain oil razors
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen. Edward Young
pain hands names
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Edmund Spenser
pain real delight
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others Edmund Burke
pain passion men
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. Edmund Burke
pain ideas giving
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience. Edmund Burke
pain purpose energy-fields
In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship. Eckhart Tolle
pain loneliness grief
So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
pain empathy desire
Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously. Eckhart Tolle
pain long identity
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it. Eckhart Tolle
pain addiction cover-ups
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Eckhart Tolle
pain past thinking
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now. Eckhart Tolle
pain anger criminal-mind
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Eckhart Tolle
pain joy enlightenment
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
pain joy consciousness
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. Eckhart Tolle
pain moving addiction
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. Eckhart Tolle
pain taken thinking
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane. Eckhart Tolle
pain simple decision
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems. Eckhart Tolle
pain emotional long
As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. Eckhart Tolle
pain long mind
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind. Eckhart Tolle
pain resistance degrees
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
pain long problem
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them. Eckhart Tolle
pain joy noise
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. Eckhart Tolle
pain loneliness suffering
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world. Elie Wiesel
pain betrayal people
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal. Elie Wiesel
pain believe heart
But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi) Elie Wiesel
pain endurance humans
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects. Elie Wiesel
pain loss people
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v) Elie Wiesel
pain enemy benefits
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. Elie Wiesel
pain compassion people
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human. Elie Wiesel