If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all of you are beyond the pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that youre in control of your life. If you dont life controls you.
Pain dies quickly and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
Pain wastes the Body Pleasures the Understanding.
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns arent lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is blessed who neer was born.
Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.
The delight that consumes the desire The desire that outruns the delight.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
Pain addeth zest unto pleasure And teacheth the luxury of health.
We cannot learn without pain.
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all of you are beyond the pain.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
There are only three sins causing pain causing fear causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.
I think therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Pain nourishes courage. You cant be brave if youve only had wonderful things happen to you.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that youre in control of your life. If you dont life controls you.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
In the country of pain we are each alone.
One fire burns out anothers burning One pain is lessend by anothers anguish.