Alan Watts Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Pain Quotes

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Pain Quotes , Selfish Quotes

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

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In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?

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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Grief Quotes

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.

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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Pain Quotes

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

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I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

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Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

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We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.

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It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

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