Pain Quotes - Page 34

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

Why talk when you can paint?

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.