Pain Quotes - Page 16

• I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

  Joan Osborne

  Trying, Use, Fuel

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• This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.

  Joan Osborne

  Thinking, Perspective, Over You

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• I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

  Don Letts

  Believe, Struggle, Passion

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• Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they? How is this subsumed pain vented? Is it released in my art? I hope so, but I also suspect that it's emitted in my sleep.

  Keith Murray

  Art, Sleep, Energy

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

  Kit Williamson

  Writing, Trying, Digging

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• We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

  Dani Shapiro

  Heartache, Protect

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We shouldn’t come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, World, Pseudo

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Creative, Embrace, Outlets

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• There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Feelings, Needs, Awful

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• As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Crush, Moving, Eye

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• I'm fearful and anxious for my family in ways that I've never been fearful or anxious for myself. I'm completely vulnerable to their pain, both physical and emotional. It's wild. And I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  Mark Deklin

  Emotional, Way, Vulnerable

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

  Adam Duritz

  Half, Legs, Stage

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• I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

  Adam Duritz

  Breathing, Years, People

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• When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

  Maggie Q

  Hurt, Suffering, Remember

  "Divergent Star Maggie Q on Earthlings, Best Friends Animal Society, and No Kill". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

  Mike Ness

  Recovery, Taught, Extremes

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Whether you're going through fear, whether you're going through pain, or whether you're going through anything, love is the best healer and the most powerful thing in the world.

  Mike Ness

  Powerful, Love Is, World

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

  Pema Chodron

  Appreciation, And Love, Vulnerable

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• This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

  Pema Chodron

  Pleasure, Tendencies, Living Things

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• One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the practice of tonglen.  In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it.

  Pema Chodron

  Powerful, Practice, Feelings

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• If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

  Pema Chodron

  People, Confusion, Way

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• I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Suffering

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

  Karen Armstrong

  Strings, Quartets, String Quartets

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  World, Tables, Prejudice

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Products, Interpreting

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

  Marianne Williamson

  Grief, Trying, Rooms

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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