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  • Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

    Pain   Self   Phoenix  
    Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.

    Teacher   Math   Ideas  
    "A Mathematician's Lament". Book by Paul Lockhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.
  • People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.

    Pain   Love Is   Reality  
    "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
  • You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

  • I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

    Life   Pain   Bars  
    Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.

    Pain   Reality   Choices  
  • Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

    Pain   Cancer   Loss  
    Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2007.
  • Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

    Pain   Nice   Buddhism  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  • Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

  • truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

    Truth   Pain   Soul  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.451
  • I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

    Pain   Needs   Affection  
  • I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

    Believe   Decision   Wish  
  • The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

    Prayer   Everyday   Wish  
  • Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass. "Wow. Where have you two been all my life?" Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor. "Walking hand in hand with you. Haven't you noticed?

    Pain   Glasses   Hands  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.48, Macmillan
  • The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

    Pain   Hippie   Men  
  • Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.
  • You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

    "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
  • So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    Pain   Long   Generosity  
    Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon
  • Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com
  • You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

  • There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

    Life   Pain   Opportunity  
    Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”
  • Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

  • Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

    Love   Life   Pain  
    On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 2
  • In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  • I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

    Pain   Conceited   Rapper  
    "Does Kanye West Believe He’s God?" by Smokey Fontaine, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. March 3, 2009.
  • Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

    Pain   People   Suffering  
    "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
  • Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.

    Love   Hurt   Pain  
  • Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

    Love   Life   Friendship  
    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers
  • Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.

    Real   Speech   Littles  
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