Pain Quotes - Page 14

• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Emotional, Rights

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.

  Sharon Gannon

  Loneliness, Sadness, Intelligent

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.

  Common

  Kids, Atlanta, Color

  "A Chat with Common Interview: Adimu Colon". Common Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.

  Shane Claiborne

  Morning, Wall, People

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Heart, Loss

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.

  Renee Lawless

  Prayer, Next Day, Anxiety

  "Putting Life in Perspective: Renée Lawless". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

  Alex Ebert

  Ego, Want, Sometimes

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

  Alex Ebert

  Beautiful, Emotional, Alive

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

  Alex Ebert

  Beautiful, Healing, Sometimes

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.

  Alex Ebert

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.

  Alex Ebert

  Thinking, Agony, Important

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Emotional, Hands, Perspective

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Giving, Joy, Permission

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

  Julia Stiles

  Emotional, Type, Worthwhile

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

  Julia Stiles

  People, Causes, Seeing

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

  Ziggy Marley

  Stress, Moving, Forever

  "Ziggy Marley Says ‘Love Can Never Have A Negative Effect, Only A Positive Effect’". Origin Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

  Romany Malco

  Emotional, Suffering, Helping

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• More times than not, my pain stems from an area in which I've been least authentic. The second I identify the source - the area of my inauthenticity - I begin to feel better. This allows me to take complete responsibility for my emotional discomfort, and the awareness enables me to move beyond the blockage. I become energetically unstuck, allowing the pain to pass through me.

  Romany Malco

  Moving, Responsibility, Feel Better

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

  Romany Malco

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Growth

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Self, Trying, Path

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

  Mpho Koaho

  Emotional, Self, Way

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I was five, I brought home a stray kitten I named Tiger. This was my first rescued animal. It wasn't until I became an actor, and then injured my spine, that I discovered that these animals were actually very therapeutic and helped me to cope with my chronic pain.

  Ken Wahl

  Home, Animal, Long

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• Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Mean, Stuff

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

  Soko

  Tired, Sleep, Panic Attacks

  "Sleeping, Dreaming and Making Art: Soko Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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