Pain Quotes - Page 117

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

It is pain that ages us, not years.

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

I think some of you have to go through the pain of being rejected, the pain of being attacked on television, and ultimately there are people at home who are rooting for you and are wondering why more people don't defend what they stand up for.

(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

Paint faster than you can think.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

I paint with my back to the world

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.