- 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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
- Complete Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because I think that's what it means to be human.
- Bones
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- Nov 07, 2020
My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
- Childbirth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020