Pain Quotes - Page 115

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved and supported and exhilarated by the creative forces flowing through her body and her ability to meet labor's challenges.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my tears back to show you that I'm happy but what hurts the most is knowing the fact that I'm not all these things I portray to be.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Under every burden, .....God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, .....His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, .....God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, .....bring a blessed calm.

My purpose is far greater than my pain

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.