“I knew from years of experience that pain is a blunt and nonspecific diagnostic instrument.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy. — George Wald Copy Share Image
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy. — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
You cannot truly experience happiness until you experience pain. Because then only are you able to compare the difference and appreciate the… — Pauline Seaport Copy Share Image
“Whenever you experience pain anywhere in your body, the chi flow in your energy system has been disrupted.” — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
“recent research has shown that when we empathize, the brain activates many of the same networks as when we ourselves experience pain,… — Richard J. Davidson Copy Share Image
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“By the time you experience pain and suffering,g the causes have been with you for some time. That's because energy enters through… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence.… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling.… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is. Pain is that blessed and despised universal experience that creates more… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
People are afriad of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The only way to truly understand someones chronic pain...is to experience that pain yourself, which you probably never will. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I believe this all has to do with how I decide to perceive the experience. Pain is part of life and makes… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image