Pain

Peter Heller Author

Pain

"Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious."

Pain Hurt Dog

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher

Pain

"... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)"

Pain Misery Happy Times

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher

Pain

"Life without pain has no meaning."

Pain Without Pain

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher

Pain

"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Pain Evil Physical Pain

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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop

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"He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect."

Pain Worry Almost Perfect

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer

Pain

"Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more."

Soul Pain Humility

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

Pain

"People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel."

Character Pain Philosophical

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

Pain

"The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God."

Fall Pain Wisdom

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader

Pain

"If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it."

Long Pain Benefits

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author

Pain

"Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand."

Pain Friendship True Friend

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor

Pain

"All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else."

Pain Revenge Retribution

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Jeff Buckley Musician, Singer-Songwriter

Pain

"We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain."

Pain Born Patterns

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Miguel Writer

Pain

"There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove."

Doe Pain Ends

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer

Pain

"I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape."

Believe Pain Boxing

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Patch Adams Physician, Comedian

Pain

"Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!"

Pain Laughter Cancer

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer

Pain

"Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!"

War Pain Hero

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Rachel Joyce Author

Pain

"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."

Fall Pain Differences

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Pain

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

Pain Trust Cheating

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist

Pain

"I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out."

Pain Blow Suicide

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

Pain

"Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies."

Pain Disappointment Tasks

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