Quotes about pain
pain exercise brain
Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it. Jack LaLanne
pain heart past
We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready. Jack Kornfield
pain heart understanding
Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding. Jack Kornfield
pain heart compassion
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world. Jack Kornfield
pain heart warrior
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. Jack Kornfield
pain heart compassion
Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion Jack Kornfield
pain moving grief
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply. Jack Kornfield
pain heart meditation
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open. Jack Kornfield
pain ocean fall
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. Jack Kornfield
pain meditation-practice feelings
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops. Jack Kornfield
pain buddhism loss
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature. Jack Kornfield
pain buddhism compassion
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world. Jack Kornfield
pain ignorance heart
But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain. Jack Kornfield
pain compassion suffering
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile. Jack Kornfield
pain get-well feet
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. Jack Canfield
pain doe earth
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist. J. D. Salinger
pain prayer moon
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am. Isadora Duncan
painting canvas reason
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting. Irving Stone
painting someday louvre
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone
pain without-pain no-love
There's no love without pain. Irving Stone
pain conflict
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain. Ira Sachs
pain animal joy
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. Ingrid Newkirk
pain love-is peaceful
Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment. Jack London
pain distance impact
He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away. Jack London
pain anesthesia exquisite
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. Jack London
pain relief method
Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method. Jack Nicklaus
pain names batman-movie
I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman. Jack Nicholson
pain mind madness
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach. Jack Kerouac
pain doctors waiting
The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach! Jack Benny
painful
I had no idea it would be as painful as it was, ... It really stung. Steve Carell
pain supposed thinking
I'm thinking it's supposed to be getting better and better and it's not. I can't get any lift. I'm not getting up on my jumper and running-wise, there is pain now.
pain
I'll be like, 'Epidural, please!' ... I don't want to go through the pain. Britney Spears
pain mind body
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. Publilius Syrus