Quotes about pain
pain praying cry
You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain. Iyanla Vanzant
pain fear stories
When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed. Iyanla Vanzant
pain disappointment fall
No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives. Iyanla Vanzant
pain creating confusion
Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it. Iyanla Vanzant
pain night mushrooms
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. Isaac Barrow
pain years essence
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. Fyodor Dostoevsky
pain feelings understanding
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. Fyodor Dostoevsky
pain fear-of-death
God is the pain of the fear of death Fyodor Dostoevsky
pain self suffering
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain greatness suffering
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain men weather
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible? Friedrich Nietzsche
pain failure men
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated Friedrich Nietzsche
pain suffering doe
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? Friedrich Nietzsche
pain pleasure said
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain long promise
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain enormous bother
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you? Jeff Lindsay
pain heart reality
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different. Jeanette Winterson
pain winning voice
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you. Jeanette Winterson
pain moving stories
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain. Jeanette Winterson
pain mouths creatures
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. Jeanette Winterson
pain boys joy
I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy, Jim Carroll
pain character thinking
Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified. Jim Carrey
pain grateful writing
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people. Jim Carrey
pain laughing focus
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. Jim Carrey
pain emotional people
I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it. Jewel
pain self allies
You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable. Jewel
pain mean heart
To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer. Jewel
pain regret real
If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it? Jewel
pain needs passionate
Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed. Jeremy Stoppelman
pain moving recovery
Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.
pain suffering awakening
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
pain two littles
There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little. Jennifer Stone
pain mouths shots
I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers. Jeaniene Frost