Quotes by Pain In the gap between who we wish one day to be Alain de Botton envy anxiety pain In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge. Alain de Botton pain philosophy art Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself. Alain de Botton giving-up pain hurt God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. 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. Alan Brennert giving-up pain hurt 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. Alan Brennert injustice pain believe It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free. Alan Cohen entrepreneur pain truth When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love. Alan Cohen protect-yourself protect pain Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. Alan Cohen emotional pain use Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. Alan Cohen pain hurt thinking One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear. Alan Cohen pain guilt years If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain. Alan Cohen pain spiritual lying Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it. Alan Grant pain sports blood It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again . . . yet demon spirit bids to laugh Alan Grant laughter pain hurt The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. Alan Lightman pain joy past The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. Alan Lightman pain joy happiness 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. Alan Lightman pain voice children I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way. Alan Moore pain solitude lonely Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. Alan Paton pain secret kindness If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. Alan Watts pain ghost forgotten The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience... Alan Watts pain real lying «1234567891011»