Pain Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““To feel for someone enlarges the self and then the self shares risks and pains.”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pain
“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.” — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
“It is often your deepest pain which empowers you to grow to your highest self” — karen salmonsohn Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share
“Unwholesome action, hurting self, comes easily. Wholesome action, healing self, takes effort.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Everyone suffers and rejoices in his own body, it’s hard to really feel what joy or pain another person feels.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.” — Sara Barnard Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.” — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit 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 a radio.… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot and itchy,… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
It hurts wanting the best for someone you love, even if they feel the best isn't you. That's real love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tryna hide this pain with these pain killers, she said the storms only will last a little while but shit it got me feeling… — Myself Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image