Quotes about pain
pain perspective people
If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to. Max Lucado
pain problem eternity
I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.
pain fall giving
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.
pain heart pride
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
pain pulse ifs
If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.
pain struggle heartache
Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.
pain people trying
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
pain wings phoenix
The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through. May Sarton
pain mean doors
The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
pain winter fever
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
pain intimate-relationships self
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.
pain thinking joy
Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
pain laughter funny-sarcastic
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman
pain looks world
I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain. Max Irons
pain sleep hard-times
I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it. Maureen McCormick
pain giving missing
i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas. Maureen Johnson
pain sweat half
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.
pain eye reality
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me. Matthew Tobin Anderson
pain sigh anguish
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. Matthew Henry
pain men riches
Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
pain cutting loss
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it. Maya Lin
pain illusion parabola
We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. Maynard James Keenan
pain body remember
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
pain who-we-are needs
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence. Maya Angelou
pain empathy feelings
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. Matthieu Ricard
pain character want
Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons! Meg Ryan
pain believe littles
And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there. Meg Wolitzer
pain sunset government
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. Meg Whitman
painful aspect
Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.
pain positive-thinking ive-learned
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
pain heart people
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
painting someday get-back
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. Max Cannon
pain leader share
Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain. Max de Pree