Pain Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Thinking, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.

  Daniel Tosh

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

  "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.

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• Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

  Rod Stryker

  Frustration, Desire, Courses

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

  Rod Stryker

  Attachment, Suffering, Desire

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Compassion, People

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

  Regina Taylor

  Exercise, Emotional, Emotional Pain

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• Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Behavior, Pleasure, Pursuit

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.118, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Memories, Vacation

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• I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Book, Thinking

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet's Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

  Ken Wilber

  Evil, Pleasure, Without Pain

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• Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Hurt, Thinking, Suffering

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• Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

  Jaime Murray

  Talking, Feelings, Guilt

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant,

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• Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.

  Jaime Murray

  Beautiful, Knowing, Trying

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love.

  Marc Gafni

  World, Response, Outrageous

  "On Evolutionary Love, Part 1" by Marc Gafni, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2015.

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• All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

  Wayne Coyne

  Suffering, World, Sensitive

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

  Wayne Coyne

  Suffering, Accepting, Knows

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

  Wayne Coyne

  Want, Down And, Down The Road

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What most women live in, is fear of the next contraction, or they're reliving the pain of the one they just had. And nature really builds in these breaks, if you can be in the present and not feel the pain and not sort of anticipate the pain to come.

  Lauren Bowles

  Next, Break, Feels

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• Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

  Lauren Bowles

  Loss, Grieving, Sitting

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• I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

  Bellamy Young

  Joy, Welcome

  "Bellamy Young,‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

  Bellamy Young

  Trying, Lessons, Messages

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

  Bellamy Young

  Lonely, Gratitude, Hurt

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

  Bellamy Young

  Hurt, Love You, Knows

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Able, Grants

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• I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

  Christina Perri

  People, Family And Friends, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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