Pain - Quotes
We generally resist change until the pain of making a switch becomes less than the pain of remaining in our current situation.
Life is pain! I wake up every morning in pain! Work is pain! You know how many times I just wanted to give up? How many times I`ve thought about ending it?
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
I think to be a well-rounded person, you have to experience good and bad, wonderful moments and pain. You need to meet people who have no exposure to kindness, who lack any opportunity and have no way out - like the homeless, the mentally ill - and you`ve got to learn empathy for them.
Let`s tell the truth to people. When people ask, `How are you?` have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don`t want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
If you want to save her
Then first you have to save yourself
If you want to free her from the hurt
Don`t do it with your pain
If you want to see her smile again
Don`t show her you`re afraid
Because your circle of fear is the same
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind.
It takes courage [...] to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.