Top 1200 Causing Pain Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

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

I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

I think every ounce of pain in just living always ends up being the best thing that happened to me. It's always a growth period. I learn at the speed of pain.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned - but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.

How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

Between the paparazzi and so many false stories in the media, it was causing me extreme nausea and fatigue.

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

I don't feel pain. I ain't got time for that. I let other people feel pain for me.

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

China's hyper-growth is causing the world's most populous nation to spin out of the control of its leaders.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

If today were your final day of this life, would those things causing you stress still do so?

Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. He knew pain.

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.