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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
- Deliverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prayed often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby. I suffered the threat of cervical and breast cancer and experienced the pain of empty arms after the baby was gone. And truly, for me, and countless abortive mothers, nothing on earth can fully restore what has been lost; only Jesus can.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.
- Grinding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I get shooting pain from my jaw to my head.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020