Dalai Lama Quotes, Pain Quotes, Medicine Quotes

pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

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There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

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I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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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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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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