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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.
The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one
Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.
i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.
"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.
I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.
There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Not being part of the BBC with 'Top Gear' any more does pain me, because it's an organisation I approve of.
In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.