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Pain Quotes - Page 104

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.197, Zondervan

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.24, Multnomah

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Gail Levin, Dewey F. Mosby, Alex Katz, Picker Gallery (1984). “Alex Katz, process and development: small paintings from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58”

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.418, Simon and Schuster