Pain Quotes - Page 38

• God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Sad, God

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Suffering

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• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

  Hypatia

  Children, Believe, Years

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• And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

  Jean Ingelow

  Heart, Years, Affront

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.92

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• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Sadness

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

  Jesse Jackson

  Joy

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• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  T. D. Jakes

  People, My Own, Touched

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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Fall, Soul, Mind

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.345

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• I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

  Jewel

  Time, Soul, Grace

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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Cheating, Character

  Samuel Johnson (1752). “The Rambler”, p.79

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• I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Portraits, World

  Quoted in Mrs Piozzi Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786).

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• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  Samuel Johnson

  Pleasure, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.412

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• I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

  Shawn Johnson

  Struggle, Games, Two

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• I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

  Rashida Jones

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

  "Rashida Jones Interview I LOVE YOU, MAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 19, 2009.

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• There's no better way to process pain than to write.

  Rashida Jones

  Writing, Way, Process

  "Sundance 2012: Rashida Jones on Her Screenwriting Debut, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Wrinkles, Pleasure

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.141

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  Naomi Judd

  Believe, Yoga, Medicine

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• When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

  Jay-Z

  Growing Up, Dad, Fall

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2009.

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• My painting carries with it the message of pain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Happy Friday, Artist, Messages

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  Carl Karcher

  Money, Children, Parent

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• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Girl, Wisdom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Meaningful, Spiritual, War

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