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If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.
Addiction's some kind of disease? No, it's not. It's a mask for pain that usually comes from childhood and fatherlessness.
I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.
strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.
Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.
Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.