Quotes on Pain

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

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