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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain Quotes
On pain endured, hidden, and turned into art.
This set moves between the physical and the emotional - an athlete accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, and a claim of feeling none of life's pain at all. Related reading: Silence.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
- Furry
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- Nov 07, 2020
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020