One of the hardest things you'll ever do is give yourself permission to be in pain of any kind. There's a reason we have survival instincts, so that we don't die. That goes for humans, animals (redundant, I know), all the fishes in the sea, everyone. Some researchers even say that even plants feel pain and a cucumber will scream when you cut it. (And some others say that's crap because they have no brain or central nervous system.) The point is, we're all wusses. And emotional pain is the worst.
Anne Clendening
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain o... HEATHER BREWER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave t... ANONYMOUS. This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is th... DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the lov... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We took comfort in the knowledge that God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must ... DEAN KOONTZ Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional. It is our heart connections that make all the differe... ALARIC HUTCHINSON Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'rem... HERBERT BENSON Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent. SUSAN SONTAG I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because... DEAN KOONTZ Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch... ELIZABETH WURTZEL Today if you feel pain because of clot, I prefer to cut that vein. It is better to switch from one p... NEHA KOTHARI girl/boy..!! you do it again and again even after saying so many times..!! no no..!! dats it..!! its... FAHEEM IQBAL Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are... MURRAY J. MCALISTER Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are h... MARC BEKOFF Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and... MITCH ALBOM You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as... CALEB DESCHANEL Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain
to be there even... M. SCOTT PECK The blessings that come out of pain will forever be greater than the pain is even as you have passed... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remed... WILLIAM STYRON To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repress... ALICE MILLER We all feel pain in some way. Some of us only emotionally, while others in every way. We all treat i... KAYLA RAE Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES BALDWIN Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES LONG When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, ... INGRID NEWKIRK We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all ... NADèGE RICHARDS We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not ev... YASMIN MOGAHED theres gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but throug... TUPAC SHAKUR Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing cons... FRANCO SANTORO If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that the... SUSAN GLASPELL In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us. RACHEL NAOMI REMEN Is pain a state of mind or can there be more to it than what there seems to be? i would say yes if w... GARY F EVANS... I know you want her back, kid. And I know that people saying things like 'there are plenty more fish... KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something... C. JOYBELL C. There is no empirical data of which I am aware that says one way or the other we yield credible info... SCOTT SILLIMAN Any leader who feel the pain and fight for you. Support him or you lose but if that leader doesn't f... SAMINU KANTI We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and e... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Wel... ALARIC HUTCHINSON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. LORD BYRON I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ... 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DEBORAH REBER With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. What we weren't able to do was give him a ... DR PETER GREGORY When I see pain in others. I feel great. The glory seeing pain is what thrills me. What I live for, ... IVANN RODRIGUEZ When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or sig... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER I felt some intense pain during that time, and I would say that is where the depth of this came. You... BRIAN CROSBY The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. GEORGE GORDON BYRON Being with a friend in great pain is not easy. It makes us uncomfortable. We do not know what to do ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? I... CHELSEA HANDLER Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only ... MARK TWAIN Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you ... MITCH ALBOM The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY WE give up because people say that we are too old; too frail; not bright enough, have no get up and ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS One of the challenges with pain--physical or psychic--is that we can really only approach it through... JOHN GREEN A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p... ABRAHAM COWLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any pro... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE Their manipulation is psychological and emotionally devastating – and very dangerous, especially c... SHAHIDA ARABI Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and... ANTHONY ROBBINS My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and... ANTHONY ROBBINS My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and... TONY ROBBINS Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understand... CARL SAGAN I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy t... JON KATZ We feel his pain and yet he consistently makes us laugh. You can imagine how exciting it is to have ... CURTIS HANSON I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l... HARLAN ELLISON Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of... JERLINE Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ... EDMUND BURKE The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't ... MIRIAM TOEWS There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the... TOM JONES Let go the past. You can’t undo anything. It’s done. Forgive others, forgive yourself, learn fro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great ... KANYE WEST You may compare yourself to others, and feel insecure about your own worthiness. Don’t ... JENNIFER SODINI There is no right or wrong in our view of the world. But, if my view causes me emotional pain, then ... CHRISTOPHER SHEA We empathize with them and feel their pain. What we should say to them is thank you for their sacrif... DANIEL AYALON Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER I was in really bad pain, it was getting worse and worse every minute. I couldn't even walk so they ... JOZEF BALEJ When it comes to doubt, there is not one size that fits all. Some people struggle with it and some p... BEN YOUNG Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. LEWIS B. SMEDES Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain o... VERA NAZARIAN Just jump, make that call, take the next step and say NO, I'm done, that's it! As long as you entert... JAMES A. MURPHY We have lots of things to help people avoid, to distract them from their pain. That's the enemy - th... KAREN STEINBERG With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. There is no definitive on whether to opera... DR PETER GREGORY We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL
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ANNE PERRY The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu... ANNE SULLIVAN As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. ANNE SEXTON I wish to go on living even after my death. ANNE FRANK You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and ... ANNE FRANK I think a lot, but I don't say much. ANNE FRANK Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ANNE FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy. ANNE FRANK People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. ANNE FRANK Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ... ANNE HERBERT Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ANNE RICE I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ANNE FRANK All art requires courage. ANNE TUCKER And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the... ANNE BRONTE People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ANNE TYLER Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! ANNE FRANK Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my o... ANNE FRANK I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning wit... ANNE FRANK I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le... ANNE FRANK Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old. ANNE FRANK The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! ANNE FRANK Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cun... ANNE FRANK I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then... ANNE FRANK I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o... ANNE FRANK People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly th... ANNE FRANK The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ANNE FRANK Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good ... ANNE FRANK But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. ANNE FRANK