Pain Quotes - Page 56

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.

What is next to ecstasy? Pain. What is next to pain? Nothingness. What is next to nothingness? Hell.

The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.

I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.

Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.