Pain

"Don't Let Yesterday's Pain Destroy Today's Joy."

"Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a society that viewed her as a bright, charming, enormously talented disciple of bourgeois conformity. On the other hand, she ached to experience life in all its grim and beautiful complexity. The poetic eye was always at work examining the nuance and measuring obscure detail, turning conversation into ultimatum (Steiner)"

"When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it."

"She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive."

"The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations."

"As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language."

"Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God."

"My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am"

"Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self."

"One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea"

"Joy is what people take,happiness is what you make,pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works."

"There is joy at the end of every struggle we face. But you can never cross over and get there with the boats of complains. Complainer is only an explainer of pain! Take action!"

"Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive."

"The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash."

"Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?"

"One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay...she missed out on all that...like me, her son...a lifetime of sacrifice!...the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy..."

"—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, "That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position."

"The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be."

"Levi smiled at her. "Your heart is aching now, I can see that. I know what it feels like. The only thing I can say to try and make it better is to use that pain. Take every feeling you have right now, pour it into your soul and then pour your soul into the song. Doesn't take the pain away, but it gives it purpose. Make sense?"

"In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts."