Quotes about pain
pain teaching mean
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety. Epicurus
pain long mind
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
pain expectations evil
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
pain taught pleasure
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
pain choices soul
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
pain causes foolish
If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.
pain giving pleasure
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
pain struggle perfect
He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
pain pleasure
Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure. Epictetus
pain memories drinking
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again? Emily Bronte
pain thinking hands
He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.
pain sleep heart
The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die. Emily Dickinson
pain heart firsts
The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain
pain elements blank
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pain
We're not going to come out of this without some pain.
pain life-changing effort
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. Hannah Arendt
pain sensitive swelling
It's real sensitive right now, but the swelling went down, ... The pain is still there. Ozzie Guillen
pain reach willing work
It showed me how willing she was to work through some very real pain to reach her goal.
pain
It is the pain, it is the pain, endures. William Empson
pain
It was not a pretty sight. She was in pain, obviously. It wasn't very nice.
pain stand week
I've got all week to think about the pain in my leg. As long as I can stand and as long as I can go, I'll go. Clinton Portis
pain
It's good. It's not an issue. There is no pain.
pain years guilt
One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear. Alan Cohen
pain protect protect-yourself
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
pain stones use
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
pain mind causes
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
pain opponents dangerous
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. Piers Anthony
pain people suffering
We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms. Nelson Mandela
pain long humanity
Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.
pain leaving sunlight
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving Nellie Bly
pain men pleasure
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains. Neil Young
pain fall differences
I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it. Rachel Joyce
pain laughter reading
I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside Niccolo Machiavelli